[ckan-discuss] Versions of CC licenses

Tue May 21 19:55:01 BST 2013

Hi Flo, all,

as for concerned to how handle this issue in CKAN, Rufus has pointed out the solution.

As for general questions on any auto-update clause in CC-Licenses, I am afraid this only exists in CC-BY-SA. Why this doesn't exists in CC-BY I think is a question best answered by people like John Weizmann and Mike Linksvayer (now both in CC). 

On the later issue, we might move this away from CKAN discuss to open definition discuss. 

All the best
Daniel

On 21 May 2013, at 20:28, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> On 17 May 2013 10:20, Florian Marienfeld
> <florian.marienfeld at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The links that a default CKAN presents for CC licenses refer to the Open
>> Definition instead of the actual license page.
>> e.g.
>> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/master/ckan/model/license.py#L223
>> 
>> Mathias Schindler raised this at GovData.de because there are two
>> problems https://github.com/fraunhoferfokus/GovData/issues/47:
>> - The Open Definition does not include the license text
>> - no explicit license _version_ is declared
> 
> You can just add licenses to the license list if you want for versions
> and jurisdictions. e.g. cc-by-v3 (or even cc-by-v3-de if you wanted
> germany's version).
> 
>> Now Daniel you said, that CC licenses have an auto-update clause "...or
>> any later version..." by default. Can you or any one point me to that, I
>> could not find it in the legalese.
> 
> Yes they do.
> 
>> If there is no auto-update, which I suspect, then we have to force data
>> providers into picking an explicit version, in order to present a proper
>> link. This, of course, is painful in various ways.
>> 
>> Has any one faced this problem?
> 
> People have wanted custom licenses before, yes :-)
> 
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-2.0/configuration.html?highlight=custom%20licenses#licenses-group-url
> 
> Rufus