[okfn-discuss] freebase: another new open knowledge/open data service

Tue Mar 13 11:13:38 UTC 2007

I say you don't do a simple link back, but instead make a blog post
about Freebase, what state it is in, and how good it might be.

It looks potentially very very good, exactly the kind of thing we
need.

(On a more site-critical point, I couldn't even get to the FAQ without
it asking me to login. Which is a bit dumb - you should be able to
download data at least without a login.)

Regarding licensing, I don't know anything about law, but perhaps as
well as the Copy Right it is possible to license out the Database
Right :)

Francis

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:57:48AM +0000, rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> Quoting Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
> 
> >All data is licensed Creative Commons Attribution. We only ask that 
> >you link back to us.
> >
> >What do people think of this?
> 
> I think that it isn't usually  possible to CC-license a database. So I have
> legal concerns about this project, although it does look cool in a Web 
> 2,0 sort
> of way otherwise.
> 
> - Rob.
> 
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