[open-linguistics] Datahub multiple licenses

[Jimmy O'Regan]

On 31 August 2012 12:02, Sebastian Nordhoff
<sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de> wrote:
> Dear list members,
> I/we have added a number of resources to thedatahub.org
>
> * Glottolog (http://thedatahub.org/dataset/glottolog-langdoc)
> * WALS (http://thedatahub.org/dataset/wals)
> * IDS (http://thedatahub.org/dataset/ids)
> * WOLD (http://thedatahub.org/dataset/wold)
> * ASJP (http://thedatahub.org/dataset/asjp)
>
> Feel free to review an interlink.
>
> For Glottolog/Langdoc, I now have the problem that languoid data are CC-BY
> whereas bibliographic data are CC-BY-NC.

Bibliographic data? Are you including abstracts and/or summaries?
i.e., is there anything in this dataset that can _be_ copyrighted?
Looking at http://thedatahub.org/dataset/glottolog-langdoc/resource/a1fab3c6-ad56-423f-84f5-57bd3fbea8fc
I see nothing that can be (except, of course, when the collection is
taken as a whole).

(BTW, there's a quoting error in the 'dcterms:rightsHolder' line)

> I am looking for a good way to
> state this, and I would like to avoid having two datasets in the end (one
> with languoids and CC-BY, the other one with refs and CC-BY-NC).
> Any thoughts?

Do you mean that you want to avoid maintaining two datasets, or that
you want to avoid there being two datasets? The former is
understandable, but the latter may perhaps be inevitable - it could
even be worse, if multiple people take different measures to extract
the public domain portion of your bibliographic data.

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