Acceptable places to get knowledge documents from

[jjasghar]

We need a statement or a blub on some of our documentation to say that "these" places are acceptable from which to get information.

• Wikipedia
• ".gov" sites
• etc.

I know @luke-inglis has a list, but we need actual words so we can point PRs and submissions to it.

[lhawthorn]

This is currently being adjudicated by legal teams. @lhawthorn is tracking to completion. Please assign to me @jjasghar (and when I have the right repo privileges I shan't bother you again :).

[lhawthorn]

Assigned to myself, sorry for the noise @jjasghar

[lhawthorn]

Ok, to make sure I correctly understand the intent of this issue and we address it properly in the documentation.

We currently state the following in our project FAQ

Question: My contribution requires submitting data along with code. What data is permissible to include?

Answer: It is recommended that third-party content be licensed with an open data license that does not restrict commercial use or the creation of derivative works, including the following licenses:

* CC0
* CDLA-Permissive
* CC-BY-4.0
* Apache 2.0
* MIT

The InstructLab project follows the same approach (the [Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 (DCO)](https://developercertificate.org/)) that [the Linux Kernel community uses](https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin) to manage code contributions. Unless the file says otherwise for this project, the relevant open source license is [the Apache License, Version 2.0](https://github.com/instruct-lab/taxonomy/blob/main/LICENSE). When submitting a patch for review, you must include a sign-off statement in the commit message. See the [“legal” ](https://github.com/instruct-lab/taxonomy/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#legal)section of the “[Contributing.md](https://github.com/instruct-lab/taxonomy/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)” document.

I believe to properly address this issue we need to do two things:

1. Add public domain as a data source to this list and link to to Stanford Libraries Copyright & Fair Use pages on Public Domain as a useful guideline.
2. Add .gov websites as a potential data source but link to the United States government's guide on copyrighted works as useful help text.

Will that suffice for your proposal @jjasghar?

@luke-inglis Can I see the list mentioned by @jjasghar so I can make this proposal more comprehensive and ensure the project FAQ is correctly up to date?

[jjasghar]

I hate to say it, but normies will have trouble understanding this. Can we give some suggestions in that statement? If we explicitly say it it may help people to focus in on what we are ok with.

[lhawthorn]

Ok, at least for now, we are only going to allow submissions of knowledge using wikipedia.org. I am going to close this issue. If you think I made a mistake, please reopen it.