On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 03:59:13PM +0100, Neil Harris wrote: > WordNet does not seem to be under a free license -- see > > http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/license/ > > Since Wikidata's CC0 licensing allows commercial use, surely > integrating any kind of data from WordNet risks conflict with > WordNet's license?
I think that despite the confusing verbiage at the top, this is actually a BSD license. It's also what <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet> indicates. It's certainly more restrictive than CC0, but it's a free license. -- Antoine Amarilli > >On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Denny Vrandečić < > >[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I would like all interested in the interaction of Wikidata and Wiktionary > >>to take a look at the following proposal. It is trying to serve all use > >>cases mentioned so far, and remain still fairly simple to implement. > >> > >><http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary> > >> > >>To the best of our knowledge, we have checked all discussions on this > >>topic, and also related work like OmegaWiki, Wordnet, etc., and are > >>building on top of that. > >> > >>I would extremely appreciate if some liaison editors could reach out to > >>the Wiktionaries in order to get a wider discussion base. We are currently > >>reading more on related work and trying to improve the proposal. > >> > >>It would be great if we could keep the discussion on the discussion page > >>on the wiki, so to bundle it a bit. Or at least have pointers there. > >> > >><http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Wiktionary> > >> > >>Note that we are giving this proposal early. Implementation has not > >>started yet (obviously, otherwise the discussion would be a bit moot), and > >>this is more a mid-term commitment (i.e. if the discussion goes smoothly, > >>it might be implemented and deployed by the end of the year or so, although > >>this depends on the results of the discussion obviously). > >> > >>Cheers, > >>Denny > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>-- > >>Project director Wikidata > >>Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin > >>Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de > >> > >>Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > >>Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > >>der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > >>Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Wikidata-l mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Wikidata-l mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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