[od-discuss] OD addendum proposal for dealing with ambiguous license exemptions

Tue Aug 13 12:05:19 UTC 2013

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Kent Mewhort <kent at openissues.ca> wrote:

>
> Thus, a small addendum to the Access principle (#1) might be a simple
> solution to filling this gap (proposed additions in bold):
> 1. Access
> The work shall be available as a whole and at no more than a reasonable
> reproduction cost, preferably downloading via the Internet without charge.
> The work must also be available in a convenient and modifiable form. *The
> work must be clearly presented as available under the license.*
>
> +1 I am currently trawling through "open access" offerings from scholarly
publishers. Many of these do not display on the journal masthead and/or the
document itself what the licence is. This means that when such documents
are re-used there is no permanent transfer of information about the licence
, owner and rights.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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