Using a Database Available under a Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0 License

Question

I am looking to use a database / data file shared under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 license for my site. According to the license, I can freely reassemble the work, while I attribute this work, and I share it under the same license.

However, I had to

1) open source my site?
2) do all the services on the website using the database completely free?
3) leave my site without ads?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode

Answer 1

It will be quite difficult to get a legal response in a technical forum ...

Having said that (and IANAL):

Your database is “work” or “adaptation”. Your website is a "collection".

In section 4a (where I stopped reading), he points out:

You must indicate a copy or Unified Resource Identifier (URI) for this License with each copy of the Work that you distribute or publicly Perform ... You must keep unchanged all notices that relate to this License and the disclaimer of warranty with each copy of the Work, which you distribute or Publicly perform.

and 1j:

To perform publicly: ... for broadcasting and relaying the Work in any way, including signs, sounds or images.

Your website is a public database performance (Be characters / language and / or images). Therefore, you need to include license notices and a license on your website.

In addition, earn money from advertising, keep it closed and do not disseminate the data you collect.

In addition, you can send a request to the database author to answer this question with your interpretation (which may or may not be the correct legal interpretation, but that would be interesting)

Notes: I am skeptical about what I read, which means "signs" - I, in fact, suggest that this may represent the language. Either this, or your website is a visual (image) representation of the database.

Answer 2

The license for the data in the database is completely separate from the code of your site.

As I read it, if you redistribute the database, pack it and send it to other people, you should attribute the work and share the database.

If this is your website, then of course you do not need to do anything.

(And if he did not want the database to be used in a commercial context, the creator would choose a commercial license for sharing for both non-profit and everyone)

Answer 3

License terms are most often applied only if you want to redistribute the product. “Making it accessible” by publishing parts on a website is usually good within the limits of the intended use and, therefore, is not considered a redistribution.

So, to answer all three questions: no .

If you want to publish a downloadable source data database (or a significant part of it) with or without modifications, you must use the same (or possibly compatible) license with the license.

Once again, this will not have an effect on your licensing of the source code of your site . This is yours (or it remains bound under the license you received).