Licensing advice from Barry Norton on 2013-07-12 (public-lod@w3.org from July 2013)

From: Barry Norton <barry.norton@ontotext.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:20:43 +0100
To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Message-ID: <51DFF49B.8050902@ontotext.com>

I'd like to publicly release R2RML mappings for the MusicBrainz dataset. 
DBpedia has shown interest in including the subset that can be used to 
create a linkset.

Any idea what (kind of) licence could/should apply? (To be clear, to the 
mappings, as opposed to the dataset)

I'd also like to attach, since R2RML is RDF, a licence and attribution 
on a per rr:TriplesMap basis. (The mappings are hosted on github and 
contributions will be accepted as I'm never going to get through all of 
the MB Advanced Relationships, a moving target, myself and I'm being a 
bottleneck.)

The question's also been raised on whether a given licence can in turn 
impose conditions on the triples that are created using it (as 
derivative works)? Does that sound feasible?

Any input appreciated.

Barry

Received on Friday, 12 July 2013 12:21:07 UTC