Re: license for snydicating content about the semantic web

Hi Leo,


Leo Sauermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing you because you are involved in one of these websites, 
> gathering information about the semantic web, and because of your 
> personal experience in the field:
> 
> http://planetrdf.com/guide/
> http://www.mkbergman.com/?page_id=325

My site is published under the Creative Commons license, 2.5, which I 
will likely update to 3.0.  Either of those or the W3C is acceptable.

Thanks, Mike

> http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/servlet/Entry?action=v
> http://www.schemaweb.info/
> http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/toolkits/index.htm
> http://rdfer.com/
> 
> I am working in the SWEO interest group:
[snip]


> 
> THE QUESTION
> Under which usage license do you publish the content of your website?
> 
> If your content was to be syndicated by SWEO, what license would you like?
> here are suggestions, add more if you want
> 
> * no explicit license. users have to find out by contacting me (most 
> blogs work this way)
> 
> * creative commons - by attribution
> 
> * W3C software license (which is also adopted widely)
> 
> * a viral license: users of my data have to re-publish it with the same 
> license VS users can change the license given some conditions
> 
> There is a trade-off: if you have a less restrictive license (such as 
> cc-by-attribution) your content may be reused better, but it may drag 
> away users from your own website.
> 
> I want to ask if I can forward your answers to a public mailinglist 
> (public-sweo-ig@w3.org), if you don't want this, please say so explicitly.
> 
> kindest regards
> Leo Sauermann
> 
> p.s. If you wonder how we came to your websites, we have collected them 
> on this wiki page:
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/InfoGathering/DataSources