[okfn-coord] License consultancy work for EU Transparency?

Mon Jul 20 15:38:49 UTC 2009

I noticed the story while I was away and was distressed not to see a
mention of farmsubsidy.org, since it was quite clearly where the
journalist got their data.

I'd be interested to know whether the fact the data was open was the
major driver for the IHT thinking they could get away without
attributing their source, or whether, had the data been "copyrighted"
they would have gone ahead and stolen it anyway.

2009/7/17 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> Just to let everyone know, Jack Thurston of EU Transparency is
> interested in have the OKF as a consultant on what legal tool/license
> they should use for their data. They really seem to want an
> attribution license for data!
>
> Jonathan
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Having had a not great experience with an IHT/NYT story today that is
> based around the database we provided to them, but has no attribution
> whatsoever, I'd like to move forward with getting the licensing issues
> tied down.
>
> Specifically, I'd like to:
>
> - agree a license for the websites (farmsubsidy.org / fishsubsidy.org)
>
> - agree a license for the database
>
> Would OKFN be available as a consultant on this?
>
> Tasks would be:
>
> Help select and draft the license
>
> Help with a plain English FAQ that explains it.
>
> We want to be as open as possible, and to encourage others to be open
> but we do need for our work in compiling and providing the data to be
> attributed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack
>
>
>
> On 2 Jul 2009, at 21:46, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> Brilliant!
>>
>> Also how do you think the data will be licensed? If its in the public
>> domain (e.g. via CC0 or PDDL) then it could be hosted on Talis's
>> Connected Commons platform...
>>
>> You might also be interested in the Open Database License (ODbL), a
>> sharealike license for data which we released on Monday:
>>
>>  http://blog.okfn.org/2009/06/29/open-database-license-odbl-v10-released/
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Jack Thurston<mail at jackthurston.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Simon was talking about a code wiki / API. But it's not been implemented
>>> yet. On the list for next update. Will look into where the raw data is. I
>>> know it's somewhere.
>>>
>>> Jack
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2 Jul 2009, at 20:17, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jack,
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations on the recent launch of Fish Subsidy! The site looks
>>>> fantastic.
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering whether data is available for download on the Fish and
>>>> Farm Subsidy websites? If so it would be great to link to this in the
>>>> CKAN packages.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>>
>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>> http://www.okfn.org
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://www.okfn.org
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> Jonathan Gray
>
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