[od-discuss] Draft letter for German Licences

[Herb Lainchbury]

To confirm what Mike points out, the line in the letter about exceptions
for national governments was taken from the license approval process
document.

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:38 PM, 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/1aZV08NLP2zNebDfy8qBfxrLaml64E
>>> qRsDI5gGyXq9i8/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?
>
> Mike
>
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