I am building a website that will allow users to enter preferences for certain things (we'll call them cars), and get suggestions for other cars that they may be interested in. Finding similarities between the cars requires a very large data set on the characteristics and features of car models.I've collected a significant amount of this data, much of which is public domain. I intend to use it in a proprietary, commercial project, which is fine so far.However, one of the data sets I'd like to use is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. I've read through the license, and I'm unsure how its terms about modification and the like apply to this situation. I don't really want to modify the original document (the data), I just want to read it and process it as part of a larger project. I'd certainly be happy to re-distribute the data freely as part of my work.Is this allowable under the GFDL terms? Would my new project have to be GFDL? Would that even make sense since it's a software project, not a documentation project?I'm hazy on the difference between modifying the data, redistributing the data, and writing an algorithm that leverages the data to do other things...
Proprietary Software Leveraging GFDL data?
license compatibility;gfdl