[od-discuss] German Data license 2.0

Mon Jul 7 18:25:18 UTC 2014

Dear Andrew,

thanks for the swift reply. Will answer your questions inline

On 07.07.2014, at 19:44, Andrew Stott <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com> wrote:

> Daniel
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Are these the complete texts?!

Yes, theses are the complete texts (very minimalistic indeed)

> 
> In the original German is there any clue as to what precisely is meant by
> "Changes, editing, new designs or other amendments must be marked as such in
> the source note." - does it mean that the attribution needs to say *if*
> amendments have been made or *what* those amendments were?  

I think this intended to require a note *if* amendments have been made.

All best
Daniel

> There is a
> requirement to give a link to the original dataset anyway.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: od-discuss [mailto:od-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Dietrich
> Sent: 07 July 2014 16:49
> To: od-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [od-discuss] German Data license 2.0
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> please find attached the revised version of the official German Government
> Licenses for data. The version aims to address the feedback and criticism on
> the first version of the license as published in  April 2013 here:
> https://github.com/fraunhoferfokus/ogd-metadata/tree/master/lizenzen/BMI
> 
> Please note that the non-commercial version is not used anymore and but a
> zero version has been added. 
> 
> The German Ministry of the interior who runs the open data initiative at the
> federal level asked me to kindly consult the Advisory Council of the Open
> Definition to review the new version of the licenses for compliance with the
> OD. They would be thankful for comments and an official statement about the
> compliance.
> 
> I have uploaded the new license as Google docs for comments. 
> 
> Data licence Germany - Zero - Version 2.0
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RqQqkCt7t9yO5YMrRsXEMnoS5cCDzUtbDf-tN0Up
> q1A/edit#
> 
> Data licence Germany - attribution - Version 2.0
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z8aKuEoyPw_T_LZNBTH1O_ZSJCta9N1YgWSiX5zX
> zw4/edit#
> 
> Thanks for sour help!
> Kind regards
> Daniel

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