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

Tue Jul 21 14:11:26 UTC 2009

Just to update everyone I've told Jack we're definitely interested.
I'll keep you posted...

Jonathan

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Becky Hogge<becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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