[odc-discuss] Questions about ODC licenses and web site

[Lucy Chambers]

Hi Peter,

Cc'ing the Open Data Commons discuss list for clarification on the
points you have raised.

We will be in touch soon,

Lucy

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Peter B. Hirtle <pbh6 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Sirs:
>
>
>
> I am very much encouraging our data projects at Cornell to use ODC licenses,
> but people have been deeply confused by your web pages, particularly the web
> page relating to the ODC-BY license.  I hope that you can help with these
> questions.
>
>
>
> 1.       On http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/, you indicate that
> ODC-BY is “Attribution for data/databases.”  In the text of the license
> itself, however, you specify that ODC-BY does not apply to data, but only to
> databases: “…this license only governs the rights over the Database, and not
> the contents of the Database individually.”  Is ODC-BY only for databases?
> If so, why are you calling it “data/databases”?
>
> 2.       If it is only for databases, as the legal code seems to suggest,
> what license should be used to license content with only an attribution
> requirement?
>
> 3.       On http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/, under “How to
> apply,” you give language that refers only to databases, and not data
> content  (see question 1 above).  This is in contrast to the ODbL license
> http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/), which has one sentence that
> refers to the database, and a second sentence that refers to the database
> content.  Why no second sentence for content in the ODC-BY license –
> especially since Footnote 2 on the ODC-BY page refers to replacing the
> (non-existent) second sentence?
>
> 4.       The ODC-ODbL license refers to the Database Contents License:
> http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/, for data.  This is not listed
> as a license under your list of licenses.  Are there other database commons
> licenses (such as an attribution license for database contents)?
>
>
>
> Peter B. Hirtle
>
> Senior Policy Advisor and Fellow, Society of American Archivists
>
> Digital Scholarship Services
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> Cornell University Library
>
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> Ithaca, NY  14853
> peter.hirtle at cornell.edu
> t.  607.255-4033
> f.  607.255-9524
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> http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/vivo/individual23436
>
> Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S.
> Libraries, Archives, and Museums:
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> http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142
>
>



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