[od-discuss] v2.0dev Review Requested

Tue Jul 29 04:34:47 UTC 2014

I like "preservation".

So adapting my proposal further:

*"Open Knowledge allows anyone the freedoms to access, use, modify, and
share — subject only, at most, to measures that preserve provenance and
openness."*
--
Aaron Wolf
wolftune.com

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Aaron Wolf <wolftune at gmail.com> wrote:

> Building on where the consensus is currently leading, here's a variation
> of my wording from before that was liked:
>
> *"Open Knowledge allows anyone the freedoms to access, use, modify, and
> share — subject only, at most, to protections that maintain provenance and
> openness."*
>
> This uses "Open Knowledge" instead of "Knowledge is Open if". It takes a
> more *active* style of grammar. I changed "redistribute" to "share" (the
> technical terms can come later I think).
>
> I added "access" emphasizing that quality — knowledge that is not
> accessible is not open regardless of whether you can do things with it
> after some burdensome access process. Note that this is not entirely new as
> there had always been some access emphasis. Note however that licenses
> don't necessarily require the access aspect themselves, so open access is
> an independent issue from the licensing, but I still think it fits as part
> of the definition.
>
> I also changed my original "requirements that protect…" to "protections
> that maintain…" but I don't feel strongly about that distinction. We could
> also say "terms that maintain" or "terms that protect" or other such
> combinations. I like the goal of emphasizing continuity in what this clause
> is trying to say.
>
> Keep in mind that we are trying to balance clarity and pithiness. I like
> my new proposal here in all it's pithiness.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> --
> Aaron Wolf
> wolftune.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>
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>> On 28/07/14 12:24 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
>> >
>> > "Knowledge is open if anyone is free to use, modify, and
>> > redistribute it ? subject only, at most, to requirements for
>> > provenance and openness."
>>
>> Yes provenance and openness are better than attribution and share-alike.
>>
>> I'd prefer "protections for" to "requirements for" but this is still a
>> nicely robust definition.
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