[odc-discuss] Open Government Licence interoperable with ODC - Attribution

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Sat Oct 2 09:33:38 UTC 2010


Jordan S Hatcher wrote:
> "These terms have been aligned to be interoperable with any Creative
 > Commons Attribution Licence, which covers copyright, and Open Data
 > Commons Attribution License, which covers database rights and
 > applicable copyrights."
>
> This is really great news!

Definitely.

"Any Creative Commons Attribution Licence" of course includes CC-BY-SA. 
I presume that, similarly, "any... Open Data Commons Attribution 
Licence" includes ODbL, described on 
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/ as "Attribution Share-Alike for 
data/databases".

cheers
Richard




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