[odc-discuss] Database Contents Licence (formerly the FIL)

Thu Apr 30 17:59:24 UTC 2009

Cool, that makes a lot of sense. So as per my past email, what's the 
analog to PDDL for hetereogenous databases? 

Jordan S Hatcher wrote:
> On 30 Apr 2009, at 17:45, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
>   
>> That helps, thanks Jordan.
>>
>> Can you ODbL the database, even if some of the data in the database  
>> may have third-parties with rights to it in various jurisdictions?
>>     
>
> You can't give away rights (PDDL) or license rights (ODbL) for stuff  
> you don't own.
>
> Just like in FOSS and software, I can't copy proprietary code from  
> Microsoft Internet Explorer and pop it into Firefox.  I don't own it.   
> I can write my own code and license it under the MPL. But I can't copy  
> someone else's as it's not mine.
>
> The ODbL is agnostic as to the Contents (defined in the ODbL) of the  
> Database. The Contents can be heterogenous (text from Wikipedia with  
> GFDL + CC-BY-SA images + Public domain text, for example) or  
> homogenous (all with the same rights).  If the Contents are homogenous  
> and you own the rights to it, then you can apply the DbCL to the  
> contents.
>
> ~Jordan
>
>
>   
>> I think "early adopters" of this suite of stuff for library  
>> bibliographic data may currently not be using them correctly.  
>> Guidance is desperately needed.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> Jordan S Hatcher wrote:
>>     
>>> On 30 Apr 2009, at 16:19, Anders Söderbäck wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Anyway, when licensing library data, I guess you could use both  
>>>> the  ODbL and the DbCL together, just to be safe.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I'll try to address your other points when I can, but this one I   
>>> wanted to clarify immediately.
>>>
>>> The DbCL is meant to be used only with the ODbL.
>>>
>>> The ODbL will cover the Database.  The DbCL will cover the contents  
>>> of  that database.
>>>
>>> It's the difference between a text field name (licensed under the  
>>> ODbL  as part of the database) and the text in the field (licensed  
>>> under the  DbCL).
>>>
>>> ~Jordan
>>>
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