[euopendata] [psi-workers] Rules + website for Open Data Challenge

Thu Mar 24 13:52:03 UTC 2011

2011/3/24 Thomas Roessler <tlr at w3.org>

>
> > Re: open source + open data in apps, what about 'we strongly encourage
> > entrants to use open licenses for code, content and data'?
>
> I don't think we should require open source licenses for the apps (or make
> this part of the evaluation) -- in fact, if somebody came up with something
> that's productized and sold later on, we should welcome that.
>

If somebody has plans to commercialize his software he or she simple can
choose a BSD or Apache License Open Source License that allows to to that.

A lot of huge companies like SUN or NetApp started that way and Google is
doing the same with Android right now.

cu andreas
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