I think Laura raised a very good point here. One question, broader : is Wikidata team thinking about moving their dataset over *block-chain*? That, I do believe, would incentivise people to participate, maintain, and even craft useful thing with clear licenses (eventually profiting based on utility of a thing ) .
Again, the possibility to compute / process things that are of public utility / governance depends on accessibliity to data. Or, very large computation / legal / negitation power of a few stakeholders. Making data accessisble from multiple stakehodlers from public audiences, or at least mirroring the meta-data, would allow a sane "competition" / collaboration in governance - with also concrete applications saving $$$ , like preventing companies collusions. I also tried to connect with OpenCorporates - research and CEO. No answer so far. On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Laura Morales <laure...@mail.com> wrote: > OK, just asked. Their reply was that they "reserves the right under > paragraph 3.3 of ODbL to release the database under different terms", which > is to say their data is NOT free because they want to control how and where > the data is used. > Are we starting to see "free vs open" all over again, this time with data > instead of software? > > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 5:06 PM > From: "Thad Guidry" <thadgui...@gmail.com> > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." < > wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Kickstartet: Adding 2.2 million German > organisations to Wikidata > > Laura, > > Talk to OpenCorporates and ask those questions yourself. > Get involved ! :) > > > -Thad > +ThadGuidry[https://plus.google.com/+ThadGuidry] > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:22 AM Laura Morales <laure...@mail.com[mailto: > laure...@mail.com]> wrote:Is there any RDF dump available of > OpenCorporates data? Or even any dump at all? Their licensing terms are > ambiguous... They say it's released under ODbL, but if I want to use the > data I have to ask permission and they will decide if I can use it for free > or if I have to pay a fee :/ > _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ > mailman/listinfo/wikidata[https://lists.wikimedia.org/ > mailman/listinfo/wikidata] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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