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robert: Is this image copyright free?

2008-08-29T22:17:30.0000Z

benjamin, here are two queries I threw together yesterday which might help you.

The first one gets a bunch of topics and any images associated with them, then tells you the license those images are under:

[
{
   "/common/topic/image" : [
     {
       "/common/licensed_object/license" : [],
       "id" : null,
       "name" : null
     }
   ],
   "id" : null,
   "limit" : 20,
   "name" : null,
   "type" : "/people/person"
}
]

This second one is roughly the same, but excludes licenses of a certain type -- in this case Fair Use:

[
{
   "/common/topic/image" : [
     {
       "/common/licensed_object/license" : [
         {
           "id" : null,
           "name" : null
         }
       ],
       "id" : null,
       "name" : null,
       "nofu:/common/licensed_object/license" : [
         {
           "id" : "/en/fair_use",
           "optional" : "forbidden"
         }
       ]
     }
   ],
   "id" : null,
   "limit" : 20,
   "name" : null,
   "type" : "/people/person"
}
]

robert: Is this image copyright free?

2008-08-29T20:30:04.0012Z

There are examples and documentation in the help center. If you only need to look at a couple of images, you can do it manually; the licensed pictures have a little license icon at the bottom. Unfortunately, some of the older images (like this one) were loaded before we required a license assertion for each one.

If you are loading many images at once, I would imagine that your application would require some other MQL usage anyway just to find them.

robert: Is this image copyright free?

2008-08-29T18:37:49.0012Z

Totally unfamiliar, but I do know other similar languages, so if you had an example that was close, I could disect and repurpose it. Thank you!

robert: Is this image copyright free?

2008-08-29T02:41:42.0012Z

Yup, that's certainly true. If you're looking for stuff that's absolutely OK for commercial use, I suggest you use a MQL query to look into the license on an image, and limit it to those which have licenses that fit for your purposes (i.e. PD, CC-BY, or whatever). I can help you with that if you're unfamiliar with how to do it.

robert: Concert Hall

2008-08-28T22:54:42.0001Z

Ok, thank you

robert: Is this image copyright free?

2008-08-28T22:53:19.0000Z

Thank you for looking into it! Fair use for me is a bit different than copyright free (or some CC flavor) because it would impact the commercial use possibilities.

robert: Is this image copyright free?

2008-08-28T21:26:54.0012Z

I suspect it was uploaded under the terms of fair use, but for some reason the image page doesn't say so. I'll check with the guy who uploaded it (I'm copying his user profile on this thread.)

robert: Concert Hall

2008-08-28T20:54:28.0012Z

Go ahead and create a type in your own domain, then, as a prototype. We have generally eschewed types in the Commons that have no properties, but it is possible that your type will evolve. I would recommend that you include Structure and Location in your type.

robert: Concert Hall

2008-08-28T20:13:33.0012Z

I am not thinking of any new properties, I only need the list at the moment

robert: Concert Hall

2008-08-28T19:25:00.0012Z

Take a look at Micah’s draft Performance Venue type and Robert’s draft Performance venue as well. A concert hall is a kind of performance venue; what additional properties would it need that these Performance venue types don’t have?

robert: Concert Hall

2008-08-28T17:47:05.0005Z

Cris,

we need the "Concert Hall" Type and a list of concert halls, please. There are practically hundreds of them in the world

robert: Is this image copyright free?

2008-08-28T16:28:34.0018Z

Looks similar to the corporate stock photo, so I wanted to double-check the copyright status. Thanks!

robert: test

2008-05-13T22:33:39.0012Z

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robert: Loved D/Generation Game - Thanks Robert!

2007-07-23T01:54:32.0007Z

I never actually saw the Amiga version. I have a hilarious cracking story for the Commodore 64 version of Karateka -- I spent about a week putting in really nasty protections that probably bought me 3 weeks of additional protection. I am glad that we've entered the era of openness. Glad we're both here doing this now.

robert: Loved D/Generation Game - Thanks Robert!

2007-07-20T17:49:47.0011Z

I used to play D/Generation on the Amiga 500 I think and also PC version ? Never got past level 16, damn droids! I wonder if Danny ever got that far ? hahaha. I was part of the Cracking Group for it as well, back in the day. (I did buy a personal copy, however!) My how times change for us, eh ? Here we are building Freebase together...

robert: Software: Protocol

2007-06-28T17:20:56.0007Z

I believe he's talking about /computer/software
http://www.freebase.com/view/schema?id=%2Fcomputer%2Fsoftware

I looked at it and I am not sure what the purpose of both the protocol fields in that type is. I can sort of understand that a large number of software applications (except purely desktop applications with no auto-update like feature) do communicate with external applications and machines in some way, however in a lot of cases IMO its not quite proper to categorize non-communications software with communications software.

robert: Software: Protocol

2007-06-28T17:05:39.0007Z

Mike -- I'm not sure which types you're talking about.

robert: Software: Protocol

2007-06-28T12:53:48.0012Z

robert,

Could you please fix software category and remove protocol from general software? It looks like communication software should be used for this.

robert: Thanks

2007-05-29T06:13:49.0006Z

We have the 'edit my own discussion' feature request in the queue.

robert: Thanks

2007-05-28T19:02:12.0006Z

Of course, I mean to say "mind", not "mine". Where's the edit button?

robert: Thanks

2007-05-28T19:01:28.0011Z

Thanks for the welcome Robert. It's good to know there is some efforts for community fostering taking place. Let the warped mine convention commence! Cheers :-).

robert: Scientific Classification infobox load

2007-05-10T11:56:29.0006Z

Thanks Robert and Jg, I'm so very pleased to here this. I definitely understand that adding this data is not a trivial matter and appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing.

I'll keep a lookout for the new items and brush up on my MQL skills.

robert: Scientific Classification infobox load

2007-05-10T05:01:27.0008Z

Frank,
Yes, we plan to type 300,000+ items including all the wikipedia plants soon.
There is some debate about whether to start with ITIS or NIH Taxo etc.
It will be resolved in 1-2 weeks and the data should be available then.

robert: Scientific Classification infobox load

2007-05-10T04:19:06.0006Z

Frank - We're putting some very deep thought into how to model species taxonomies. Wikipedia infoboxes do a pretty good job, but may not hold up well for the many purposes they might be used.

JG is working on this now and I'm not sure of the ETA. We would love to help you build a browser tool. I'll rope him into this conversation.

robert: Scientific Classification infobox load

2007-05-09T14:02:38.0012Z

Hi Robert,

Is there any chance of performing a "Scientific Classification" infobox load in the near future? This would cover a massive area of data which is largely overlooked at present. I am planning a tool to browse through the Plant Kingdom. I'm sure others would find the data really useful too.

An example of the infobox can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily

Kind regards,
// Frank

robert: How to add a type to Finance?

2007-05-03T04:36:07.0006Z

Jason - do you just want to hold companies? Is this a securities index you want or do you ultimately want indices for other kinds of things such as bonds? Also, companies may have multiple issues.

My question is, what's your goal with the type?

robert: How to add a type to Finance?

2007-05-02T22:15:37.0012Z

Hello, just learning how to add things here.

I want to create a top level type within Finance, an area you administer. The proposed type is "Index" (or Sector, or both), to hold the typical financial groups of companies (SP500 etc). It was not clear to me how to create something at that level (lower down is easy enough).

robert: Date entry

2007-05-01T04:07:29.0006Z

OK. This is now filed as a bug. It should be fixed in a release sometime soon.

robert: Date entry

2007-04-30T09:16:10.0012Z

About the date entry thing: yes, I enter one thing, and something else shows up. Then I try to figure out what the relationship between the two is, correct for that, and something else shows up that is different from what I typed in in a different way than it was last time.

robert: architecture typing

2007-02-02T23:18:51.0006Z

You mean from my private architecture domain? I don't think there would be an easy way to do it. There's really not that much data in any case -- it took me less than an hour to key all of that in.

robert: architecture typing

2007-02-02T07:07:02.0014Z

I'm looking into programatically finding your architecture properties and shifting them over to the public types. I think I could safely do it with mql queries, let me know your thoughts on this.