[rdfweb-dev] Creative Commons licences on foaf files, what does it mean?

[Dan Brickley]

* Eric Vitiello Jr. <eric at p...> [2003-01-02 09:17-0500]
> > If foafnaut use of the data requires attribution, (and I don't believe the
> > aggregrated data necessarily does) then I believe my only options is to
> > ignore foaf documents with such licence restrictions as I cannot meet the
> > licence.
> 
> I forgot about the aggregation.
> 
> Maybe have a bibliography pane in foafnaut that displays where the
> information
> for that person came from, with some sort of disclaimer? Something along
> the lines of:
> 
> "Information from this individual was gathered from the following sources:"
> 
> and then list the URLS where it came from, and possibly some kind of marker
> to
> denote that a given source required the use of attribution?

Something like that seems plausible to me.

This problem is reminiscent of software licenses which require attribution;
when dozens of software components are hooked up into a larger whole, 
attribution requirements can be a real pain. 

I doubt that CC's design focussed on use cases such as ours. It might be worth 
reporting back to them on how CC has worked, or hasn't, for annotating foaf 
files...

Dan