On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > wrote:
> The case for the CC-0 license is so in line with what the WMF stands for. > Our aim is to share in the sum of all knowledge and it is the most obvious > way to do it. When Wikidata is found to document falsehoods or established > truths that are problematic, we gain a quality where people come to > Wikidata to learn what they need to learn. > According to Denny, Wikidata, under its CC0 licence, must not import data from Share-Alike sources. He reconfirmed this yesterday when I asked him whether he still stood by that. In practice though we have Wikidata importing massive amounts of data from Wikipedia, which was a Share-Alike source last time I looked. Isn't Wikidata then infringing Wikipedia contributors' rights? Why is it okay to import data from the CC BY-SA Wikipedia, but not from European CC BY-SA population statistics? There are inchoate and uncomfortable parallels to licence laundering here, which I would hope is not something the WMF stands for. Could someone please explain? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
