[od-discuss] Draft letter for German Licences

Mon Sep 22 15:13:45 UTC 2014

Hi

On 21.09.2014, at 20:38, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/2014 8:13 AM, Herb Lainchbury wrote:
> Here is a draft letter to be sent to the German Ministry of the Interior regarding the approval of their licenses.
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aZV08NLP2zNebDfy8qBfxrLaml64EqRsDI5gGyXq9i8/edit
> 
> Please review / edit / comment.
> I reviewed the Open Definition, and I see no references to exceptions for national governments. The first part of that paragraph is probably okay, since it speaks of encouraging, not of a mandatory requirement, which would need to be reflected in the Open Definition text, which has no requirements that licenses be reusable.
> 
> The exception is with respect to encouragement of using established licenses, not necessity of doing so for OD conformance. But actually we don't encourage national governments to make up their own licenses, we just understand it is expedient and thus tolerate rather than encourage it, as reflected in http://opendefinition.org/licenses/process/
> 
> I will make a minor edit right now.
> 
> Separately, do these licenses have a canonical web location? For both German and the English translations?

Yes they do

https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0
https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/zero-2-0

> 
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
> od-discuss mailing list
> od-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/od-discuss
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/od-discuss