3 ms·

Under which license is this data available?

by emillon 12y ago

paulhallett 12y ago
The data is being scraped from sources online and by watching the films about a thousand times. As the data is already available freely elsewhere, I won't be charging or keeping the data, I'll provide it just like I do on http://pokeapi.co http://pokeapi.co
- rakoo 12y ago
  Thank you for what you're doing, that's awesome! I'd like to enlighten why choosing a license is important. Many people can be picky about the license, because even though you may be full of good intentions, the data you provide is non-free as-is in that it can't be reused elsewhere. Having a license is the clean, boring way to tell everyone "do whatever you want with this data". That's even a problem for Github, or more precisely Github users, because many people push some code without any explicit license, making this code hardly usable by default: it may be available but you don't know if you have the right to reuse it, even if the developer said "yeah, use this as you want". That's not enough. Just because the developer didn't take a few minutes to select and put a LICENSE file. It is also important to think about it in the other direction: If you're going to take content from Wookieepedia, their license is CC-BY-SA (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Copyrights http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Copyrights), which means that you MUST say it comes (at least partially) from them (not that you wouldn't anyway) and that you MUST redistribute your content with a "similar" license. Even though you may think that everything is fine, there are some actions to do on this side. Now, I'd understand that if only "amateurs" come and play with the data, we're all among good behaving adults and all is fine. But you may not be able to predict what will happen with how data is used, so unfortunately this step is important. Personally I don't like restricting people, so I try to use CC0 as much as possible. Be aware that Creative Commons licenses may not be best suited for data (they were designed for work of art primarily), as can be seen by OSM's decision on the matter (http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_Th...) so you may want to avoid them. Note: I'm not even talking about money, which is an orthogonal problem.

Under which license is this data available?

by emillon 12y ago

Under which license is this data available?

The data is being scraped from sources online and by watching the films about a thousand times. As the data is already available freely elsewhere, I won't be charging or keeping the data, I'll provide it just like I do on http://pokeapi.co http://pokeapi.co

rakoo 12y ago
Thank you for what you're doing, that's awesome! I'd like to enlighten why choosing a license is important. Many people can be picky about the license, because even though you may be full of good intentions, the data you provide is non-free as-is in that it can't be reused elsewhere. Having a license is the clean, boring way to tell everyone "do whatever you want with this data". That's even a problem for Github, or more precisely Github users, because many people push some code without any explicit license, making this code hardly usable by default: it may be available but you don't know if you have the right to reuse it, even if the developer said "yeah, use this as you want". That's not enough. Just because the developer didn't take a few minutes to select and put a LICENSE file. It is also important to think about it in the other direction: If you're going to take content from Wookieepedia, their license is CC-BY-SA (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Copyrights http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Copyrights), which means that you MUST say it comes (at least partially) from them (not that you wouldn't anyway) and that you MUST redistribute your content with a "similar" license. Even though you may think that everything is fine, there are some actions to do on this side. Now, I'd understand that if only "amateurs" come and play with the data, we're all among good behaving adults and all is fine. But you may not be able to predict what will happen with how data is used, so unfortunately this step is important. Personally I don't like restricting people, so I try to use CC0 as much as possible. Be aware that Creative Commons licenses may not be best suited for data (they were designed for work of art primarily), as can be seen by OSM's decision on the matter (http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_Th...) so you may want to avoid them. Note: I'm not even talking about money, which is an orthogonal problem.