[od-discuss] Open Data Buttons

Fri Mar 9 17:19:23 UTC 2012

Great, thanks all.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 8 March 2012 17:07, Laura Newman <laura.newman at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have recently been asked what the precise legal situation is with our
> Open
> > Data / Open Content / Open Knowledge buttons. Do they imply CC-BY?
> CC-BY-SA?
> > Or are they non-specific?
>
> We have always been pretty clear on this when discussing with people:
> the buttons have *no* legal meaning. They are a complement *not* a
> substitute for an explicit license statement.
>
> > For example, if someone were to publish a CC-BY article and include an
> image
> > with one of our buttons inserted in the bottom corner, what precisely
> would
> > that mean? In what way would that be different from displaying a Creative
> > Commons logo?
>
> Legally it would mean not that much (you could try to argue in
> extremis that it showed you wished the material to be available under
> some OD compliant license). However, as per above our recommendation,
> is, and will be that you *must* have an explicit license statement
> (and this goes for CC license logo too -- it *must* be part of or
> associated to a statement e.g. "This is licensed under license X
> <link>). The logos are conveniences of branding not substitutes for
> proper, explicit licensing.
>
> Rufus
>
> > Thanks for your input,
> > Laura
> >
> >
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> > Laura Newman
> > Community Coordinator
> > Open Knowledge Foundation
> > http://okfn.org/
> > Skype: lauranewmanonskype
> > Twitter: @Newmanlk
> >
> >
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Laura Newman
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Open Knowledge Foundation
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