One of the publicly available databases on research grants is the P3 grant database offered by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The following text stipulated the usage of this public data:
> The open data of the SNSF contains publicly accessible personal data aimed at providing transparency for the tax payer, in compliance with the relevant applicable laws and regulations. Published personal data is subject to specific rules in respect of data protection, which in particular prohibit any misuse thereof. Therefore, the SNSF is not allowed to sell the personal data provided by researchers in the research funding process or to exploit the information for commercial purposes.
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>The open data that is made accessible by the SNSF as part of the organisation’s remit to inform the public is likely to be processed by users in various ways. In certain circumstances that are linked to strengthening public information, the processing of the SNSF’s open data for commercial purposes may be permitted by the SNSF on request. This may happen, for example, if the SNSF’s data is reprocessed in such a way as to add value to the underlying information. Any data processing project in this respect must be the subject of a written request submitted to the SNSF. In any case, the user must abide by all legal data protection requirements.
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>The SNSF takes steps in close cooperation with its hosts to protect its databases against external intruders, loss, misuse and corruption to the greatest possible extent.
source: http://p3.snf.ch/Pages/OpenDataPolicy.aspx
I have cited the P3 database to draft an example Wikidata item on a person (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4747830), project (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2629752) and grant (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54875058).
The personal data was added with permission and with collaboration with the person (Amos Bairoch).
Without that permission or a written permission from the SNSF we can't use this data. Correct?