there was a paper at the COLD workshop which may be of interest
"Licenses Compatibility and Composition in the Web of Data"
(Serena Villata and Fabien Gandon)

http://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/cold2012/

though their presentation was mostly focussed on determining the
compatibility of various flavours of Creative Commons licences.

the issues of attribution in systems which dynamically consume linked
data from unbounded sources (and/or what license(s) apply from new
knowledge derived from inference or analysis from collections of data)
are largely unresolved or conveniently ignored...

getting wider uptake of proper license info embedded in linked data
representations would be a good start.

of course there is much work from the provenance folks, but I'm less
familiar with that.

best,


Ian

On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:

> Morning everybody; I've just written up a blog post describing some of
> the issues we're facing merging datasets from multiple sources with
> different licenses.
>
> http://blog.soton.ac.uk/webteam/2012/11/29/combining-and-republishing-datasets-with-different-licenses/
>
> I suspect there may be lots of work in this area I'm not aware of, so
> any help or advice greatly appreciated!
>
> -- 
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
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