So since ODBL and CCBYSA are not compatible, why would it be less of a source of possible conflicts and infringements of Wikipedia's content license to use ODBL instead of CC0?
2012/11/28 Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.oo...@gmail.com> > No you cannot: CC-BY-SA is not intended for data, so regarding data > you should never use any CC licence (pre-version 4.0, v4 will address > database rights) other than CC0. That's why if you want BY-SA > conditions, the good choice is ODbL which was created by the Open > Knowledge Foundation exactly for this, a share alike licence for > opendata. > > Like I already said a few months back, I totally agree with Alex : > using ODbL and therefore keep along the BY-SA choice that rules > Wikipedia is the most logical choice. Mocing towards CC0 would be a > source of a lot of possible conflicts and possible infringements of > Wikipedia's content licence. > > Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou from Regards Citoyens (France) > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Denny Vrandečić > <denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > Can you give me a reference for the statement that CCBYSA and ODBL are > > compatible? I understand that they have certain similarities, but I want > to > > understand if I can take ODBL content and relicense it under CCBYSA and > the > > other way around. > > > > Or else what do you mean with "compatible"? > > > > > > 2012/11/28 Alexrk <alex...@yahoo.de> > >> > >> I guess things would be far more easier if WikiData would choose a > >> CCBYSA-compatible database license like ODbL. I can only repeat myself, > that > >> the OpenStreetMap community went through a similar discussion and > decided to > >> respect database rights and keep their data as clean as possible. > Because > >> they didn't want to take the legal risk, that after 5 years a big > company > >> like Google will sue them and so OSM might loose the work of 5 years. > >> > >> I also think that there are two aspects in this topic: 1) the pure legal > >> aspects and 2) how we (Wikipedia users) treat each other and respect the > >> work of others. So the WMF might say: hey you European guys with your DB > >> rights... bad luck that you invest all your work into a US hosted > project - > >> we don't care about your rights. Even _if_ this is legally not to be > >> objected, is it fair against the users? > >> > >> To make it clear: I'm into lots of list articles (streets and monuments) > >> which contains lots of data. This content is licenced under CCBYSA > today. > >> The day when all this content will be expropriated by WikiData, is the > day > >> I'll stop my work for these Wikipedia projects. > >> > >> Regards > >> Alex > >> > >> -- > >> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Alexrk2 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikidata-l mailing list > >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- 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.
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