On 29/11/12 15:37, Avenue wrote: > > Maybe I'm missing something, but why should we restrict Wikidata to a > single standard license (or dual-license)? Why not be like Commons, > where content can be uploaded under various free licenses? > > This would have the advantage of letting us respect the licensing > schemes of various data sources. For example, much UK govt data is > provided under the OGL, while other organisations release data under a > ODBL or a CC-BY license. > > For user-collated data, we could still encourage or even require a > certain license (or dual license). > > Avenue
A commons image is a work by itself, and there's not much derivation of multiple files. OTOH data items are very tiny. So if made a graph from eg. population numbers from different countries, if pieces of the data were under a dozen different licenses, that could be problematic. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
