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aatishb / covidtrends

Tracking the growth of COVID-19 Cases worldwide
https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/
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License for graph #15

Open pietrasagh opened 4 years ago

pietrasagh commented 4 years ago

Hello, thank you for your your work. I'm very happy to find clear visualization that helps to understand what is going on in all this flood of information. Under what license you publish your work on https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/ ? Do you agree to publish snapshots of your visualization on wikipedia / wikimedia and related websites with full credits to you and other contributors?

saufrecht commented 4 years ago

I suggest combining this discussion with pull request 13, where licensing was discussed, and pull request 26, which adds an MIT license for the code.

For the purpose of uploading to English Wikipedia and Commons, I'm not sure there's any need to determine license. Since data can't be copyrighted, and JHU's compilation of the data doesn't seem to present anything special enough to be copyrighted, and the look of the chart is due to Plotly and Vue, which don't put any restriction on use of visualizations. I guess the words on the page, like "This interactive charts the new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past week vs. the total confirmed cases to date", are copyrighted, so you couldn't use that without a license, a fair use claim, or a rewording.

pietrasagh commented 4 years ago

so in short words: You do not agree to upload and use snapshots (picture) of your webpage on Wikipedia Correct?

aatishb commented 4 years ago

Hi @pietrasagh. I am fine with using snapshots of the webpage on Wikipedia, thank you for your interest. My aim is to share this work as permissively as possible. The conversation above pertains to licensing the code. I see no problem with screenshots being used on Wikipedia and am happy for your interest.