- From: Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:37:25 +0400
- To: Marc Wick <marc@geonames.org>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
Hi Marc, > It is the right of the data provider to determine what the data may be > used for. To an extent allowed by the copyright / database right law. > I would estimate for most datasets on the lod diagram you would not be > allowed to do what you describe. Most have some 'by' restriction so > you would at least have to give credit to the providers of the dataset > if you want to use it. Luckily this is a restriction pretty easy to > comply with. If your estimate is correct, then basically Google would be illegal, I figure. They gather data from the Web (even store it, which my hypothetical app doesn't), process it, and display it to the user in some form. They don't give any special credit, save for the links themselves. RSS aggregators would be illegal, for the same reasons. I believe this issue needs clarification. Licensing is a serious issue, but I don't think we can make it a "must have" for proper LD serving. Imagine a "normal" web developer cautiously trying to add a bit of RDFa to their company's web site. Now we come along and tell them that they must also indicate a license. But they don't have a special license for their web content, as they have never needed it. Their reaction? They just abandon LD altogether. -- Vasiliy Faronov
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