[od-discuss] Draft letter for German Licences

Mon Sep 22 15:43:35 UTC 2014

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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