User talk:Screbbla

What is the license of the data you are uploading? &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 19:34, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not aware of any license for the list of valid Scrabble words, but as I understand it, this is freely copyable data, as it is simply a list of words and therefore not copyrightable. Screbbla (talk) 19:40, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Word lists can be copyrighted. The data is almost certainly under the copyright of Harper Collins and I'm going to proceed to delete it, since Wiktionary content is licensed under CC-BY-SA. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 19:44, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't believe any such claims of copyright for the word lists themselves would be valid. Only if they were paired with Collins' definitions. Also there is an existing page with Scrabble words on it that seems to have been accepted by the project: Appendix:Official_English_Scrabble_2-letter_words Screbbla (talk) 19:52, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I am by no means a copyright lawyer, but there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the word list in question has been curated and thus it is under copyright (as the "expression" that can be copyrighted is the selection of words themselves). The page you linked only contains a small sample of the list. It's also a bit of a gray area, but certainly less so than a complete import. In any case, there should have been a community discussion before such a large import of data, and the copyright issue is one of the reasons why. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 20:04, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you, that makes sense, and please accept my apologies for not discussing this first. I've raised an RFD here to start the wider community discussion. Screbbla (talk) 20:12, 4 May 2021 (UTC)