Use a Wikipedia-compatible open license for the data

hermitdave / FrequencyWords

Repository for Frequency Word List Generator and processed files

MIT License

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Use a Wikipedia-compatible open license for the data #10

Closed hugolpz closed 5 years ago

hugolpz commented 6 years ago

MIT license permits reuse [...] provided that all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms.

MIT license is a "non copyleft permissive license" which is adapted for software but not for data.

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Data would be better of under a more convenient license... Preferably Public domain. CC-by-sa would do as well : )

hugolpz commented 5 years ago

Discrete ping ! @hermitdave

hermitdave commented 5 years ago

Oops.. i for some reason never saw this. Let me check this in a bit

hermitdave commented 5 years ago

In a bit as in today

hugolpz commented 5 years ago

I think i saw you migrated to CC-by-sa somewhere. I get back when i am on pc.

Edit: yes! There it is. You mention cc-by-sa-3.0 on your wordpress so we are good. Would be better to also mention it on github readme.md as well. Many thanks. A polish guy is going to record polish words for wikipedia and the world : ) https://invokeit.wordpress.com/frequency-word-lists/

hugolpz commented 5 years ago

Note: I started to test and use your frequency list within LinguaLibre.fr, a Wikimedia project whose ojective is to audio record all words. Our project is still in Public Beta, adding sources-credit within the list's page breaks some stuff as of now. We are tracking the issue, so we can properly credit you on each list page.

tracking the issue https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212671
intended tag : https://lingualibre.fr/wiki/Template:Hermite_Dave
current test with section "Source": https://lingualibre.fr/wiki/List_talk:Pol/words-by-frequency-2001-to-4000#Source
current unintended effect on Recording Studio if we include source section inside the list page :point_down:

Lingua Libre is an open source, crowd sourced project. We do as best as we can. :strawberry:

hugolpz commented 5 years ago

I made a pull request. Thanks github ! https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords/pull/11

hugolpz commented 5 years ago

Done thanks to https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords/pull/11 and https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords/commit/884c4bc4abf126265900626cbfb53a237281bb6a