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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 months ago
You can't license other people's work. And I'd say you're doing everyone a disservice if you attach some wrong license to copyrighted material. Someone might believe you, use it under those conditions and get sued. Please don't do that. The correct way to re-distribute copyrighted material is either ask for a license and attach what they gave you, verbatim. Or plainly say it's not shared legally, or don't attanch any license. Don't say it's copyrighted and illegal to share, but also don't say anything that isn't correct, just put the files somewhere.
AsudoxDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
My bad, the title sounds wrong.
I am currently planning on using ODbL with DbCL. When used together, the users of the database must comply with the licenses of the copyrighted material in the database. So it isn’t exactly relicensing the content.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 months ago
I still don't get what you're trying to do. So your users contribute some text, pictures or measurements they did on their own? You can make them license that stuff to you and everyone, yes. But they can't upload some Harry potter books, pictures they downloaded, or whatever we call "copyrighted content". Adding that to the database will make it non-shareable. And you can't attach a license then. You'd have to write some terms of service and everyone needs to agree not to insert material into the database they didn't create themselves or got a license to redistribute. And they'd need to grant you a license automatically in that terms if service.
yoevli@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You would need to have the right to redistribute the copyrighted material, which is sounds like you don’t.