User talk:Intgr

Hello

My watchlist was flooded with your edits yesterday. It seems you have been deleting perfectly valid license claims from software entries. Care to tell me what's going on?

@Codename Lisa: Sadly Wikidata doesn't allow edit summmaries. I deleted them because "freemium" isn't a license, it's a business/pricing model. Despite the fact that you right now added "instance of software license" to it.

But anyway, I'm not interesting in getting into an argument whether it's a license or not. If you think your edits are correct, I can live with that.

Maybe the better fix would be to rename property "license" to something more generic, perhaps "licensing scheme".

To say "it isn't a license, it's a business/pricing model" has the same value as saying "she is not a human, she is a girl". These two have hyponymy relationship. The license itself is a business model and the pricing is the core part of more license agreements. This is true about "software as a service". "freeware", "shareware" and "commercial software".

But of course, we can always create a "freemium software" page on WikiData and make an instance "end-user license agreement" and "business model".

The license field is defined as "license under which this copyrighted work is released". Thus the value of this property should be a copyright license. Creative Commons licenses or GNU GPL are copyright licenses. "proprietary license" is a class of licenses and also OK.

But values like "shareware", "freemium", "commercial software", etc tell you quite little what terms the copyrighted work is distributed under. They have much more with how a product is marketed/sold.

A piece of software could be licensed under GPL and be marketed under a freemium/open core business model. So is its license both GPL and freemium? How about companies that commercially develop and sell open source software, should all of their products also have "license: commercial software"?

Wikidata is full of issues like these: poorly justified and explained properties, that people then shoehorn for vaguely related purposes. But I really don't care enough about this to spend any more of my time debating it. You reverted my edits and let's leave it at that. I will try to avoid making such edits in the future.

Alright. As James Raynor from StarCraft II would say: You're all heart, Intgr.