[od-discuss] Open Data Buttons

Mon Apr 2 06:49:14 UTC 2012

On 31 March 2012 17:09, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
[...]
>> What about the modified themes? A link to a source repository would
>> make it unambiguous.
>
> I bring this thread up again as I just noticed http://annotateit.org
> (which looks like a great OKF project). The footer includes the open
> content button, but there's no license that makes it open content.

The issue there is the annotation content is not ours to license (and
we don't, atm, impose licensing on users -- and probably won't) while
the content of the site (design, images etc) is openly licensed. I
guess for the latter we could just use the MIT we are using for the
code in which case this is, sort of, correct.

> (Happy to see OSSD button there as well, and link to source, though I
> don't really understand the point of GPL/MIT dual licensing. But
> nevermind about that!)

That's because we use some GPL/MIT licensed libraries I imagine.

Rufus