If you use the Coop, then I'd assume no, as they have allowed Google to cache and search and you are using them. If you build an internal search yourself, then the answer is still likely a NO....but you may be required to us that little "Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web." green box thing with the HELP ABOUT and APPLY links (as most of the clones seem to have that in the footer of all their pages, including search).
Let me make it clear I have plans to index Dmoz as a whole and add it with additional directories I have indexed! Dmoz+8600 small directories Then?
No you do not. Your search engine is only crawling and indexing Dmoz just like any other search engine.
What is exactly your question? Are you asking if it is technically possible or ODP "copyright". If it is the last one, DMOZ has no valid copyright.
It has a valid copyright, that much should be obvious. Whether or not they enforce it is another story... and just because they do not do much about it now, does not mean they will not in the future. Abuse their Copyright at your own risk.
And your argument for this is? Have you ever looked in copyright laws or do you just repeat it because it is on their page and you thought may be he missed to see it?
I know it because I have looked at copyright laws... Even if I had not of looked into the copy right laws, it should only take someone as bright as a 4 year old to know that their site is copyrighted. Are you trying to honestly say that the 'original descriptions' of the ODP in no way fall under copyright laws? From what I can tell, you are little more then a troll. Telling people to disregard the copyright laws of a site, and telling people to buy their way into the ODP... both of which will either get the person's site banned, or the the person prosecuted. I do not care if you have something against the ODP in general, or it's editors specifically, but do not drag innocent people into the mix, that is just bad form, in fact, it's the lowest form! Keep your jabbs above the belt and aimed at the correct people, not the innocent bystander or those simply asking questions.
It is interesting that you can not give any argument for your claim, except attacking me. Is it because you don't know anything about copyright and just like to pretend you are some kind of expert about DMOZ because of your 5 edit and couple of days as editor? You just act like a girl that has to get involved in every discussion and tell people "look at me, look at me, am I not beautiful?" and then get upset that no one pays any attention. Have you ever thought the reason people don't pay attention, is because you are not as you think? For those who like to know about this subject and not only pretend that they know, here is a thread that I started awhile back and discusses the issues with ODP copyright claim and why is not valid according to current copyright laws. Does DMOZ have any copyright for directory structure or content?
I'd bother to reply but A) Orlady seems to have done a pretty good job in the send post of your thread, and B) You are now hijacking this thread. Besides, you even start off your claims with: For those of you who do not like to read long posts, the short answer in my opinion is NO. And for the record, I called you a troll because you are misleading people. That is fact. You are the one with the personal attacks by calling me a girl.
The problem is I have already indexed about 500,000 sites that are in other directories and If I index Dmoz+Yahoo then there would be a total of more than 4 million sites altogether. So I could be make good search engine directory.
I can understand why you agree with orlady, she has no knowledge about the subject either and can only copy and paste what is on DMOZ site. Do you even know what the subject is and if he is asking about technical side of indexing DMOZ or the legal side? That is what I asked him and tried to clarify before you jumped in with your "look at me, look at me, am I not beautiful?" routine.
Even the editors complain, but we are not a search engine though I am sure before long it will be dealt with, all things in good time, be patient, it is only a directory and it does mostly use voluntary editors and a few staff.
vBulletin is not a search engine, but did keep it's end user in mind when it gave a versatile search feature. I look forward to see just what the volunteers can come up with in the way of implementing a more powerful [internal] search engine for itself. Assuming that it is on the TO DO list. If there is an internal thread about this, could you possibly suggest they increase their buffer to more then 10K? Preferences may be nice as well. Like only looking for categories, or only sites. Maybe even an option for just site names? I dunno... heh, the bigger the better