Is copy of the DMOZ catalog legal?

Hello

I have a short question.

Does local copy of the DMOZ catalog using free ODP dmoz script like this: http://www.freephpdirectoryscript.com/ODP/ is legal?

 

Stay within the terms of the Open Directory License and you'll be fine.

AOL Legal are the only people who can authorise variations.

 

Thank you for being interested in the work of volunteers.

 

Has any one ever been sued for using the DMOZ cats without the back link/credit?

 

You'd have to ask the AOL Legal Department that question, because I doubt that a culprit would confess in public.

 

I do not really understand that, please take a look at the script i am going to buy, i just want to know if this is really legal and cool to use

thanks

 

Volunteer editors are not involved with legal matters at all, so if your question is not covered in the License documentation, you will need to ask AOL.

 

I looked at one of the script's example websites. It does not comply with the license in that its Submit a Site and Become an Editor links don't go to the right (category specific) places. Click on the equivalent links in a genuine ODP category to see the difference.

Correct code examples

Another of their example sites gets it right

 

so this page : http://www.protica.com/links/index.php

is fooly legal with the TOS of the dmoz.org service and i could make the same one for example in my own page ?

 

IANAL and AOL Legal don't permit me to give opinions binding upon AOL/ODP/DMOZ.

Stay within the license terms (the official code fragment I gave should help) and you'll be OK.

 

My english is not perfect, so i just wanted to know if that :

"Another of their example sites gets it right "

means, that their page is OK and i can make the same one ?

 

The ODP links on their page work just fine. Yours should behave similarly.

As I've already explained, I can't comment on whether or not they're fully complying with the DMOZ License.

If the script runs from a downloaded copy of the RDF data dump, that's good. If it's a scraping our content instead, it might not be.

 

Can you tell me how much megabytes has the RDF data dump with all the datas ? is this hard to place it into my own SQL database?
sorry for a stupid questions i am just a newbie

 

See Open Directory RDF Dump introduction. All of the files are here.

 

DMOZ doesn't have any valid copyright on category structure or content and for this simple reason they can not sue anybody without opening a whole can of worm and be forced to close it down completely. Here is a thread that I started a long time ago and it explains in details why there is no copyright.

Does DMOZ have any copyright?

 

hehe, another words in english i can learn much with my dictionary. As i presume You mean that i can make my own copy of know using the script i mentioned and everything will be fine?

 

You can do what ever you want and it is fine.

 

Oh please do not laught at me i just really wanna be fair with the licence that ias why i ask very much about that

sorry for my english

 

I do not think he was laughing at you. Read the thread pointed too and you should see that he was serious...

You can do what ever you want and it is fine.

Though, I'd really not trust that thread as legally binding, and I'd certainly not trust corporate lawyers. Contact the [gov't] copyright department or your own legal expert.

 

Do as Jimnoble tells you and you won't have a problem.