[od-discuss] Great post on difficulty of actually using "open" data

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Sun Oct 20 22:20:57 UTC 2013


On 17/10/13 11:31 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
> 
> Query: are we making the data-remix problem worse by approving licenses
> that are copyleft, or that aren't explicitly compatible with each other?

The article identifies the bulk of the data as having bespoke NC/ND
licenses.

That's not a problem with copyleft, although writing and using too many
incompatible copyleft licenses is a problem.

"License proliferation is bad."





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