[odc-discuss] ODbL and Creative Commons

Mon Feb 6 15:00:15 UTC 2012

For my understanding, current versions of CC-XX ALWAYS apply CC-BY
rights to any data licenced as such (at least the french version) and
V4.0 is supposed to fix this in order to extend the other CC
conditions properly to data.
Therefore, whenever you want to have Share-Alike rights on data, ODbL
is currently the only option, CC-BY-SA is not. That is why the ODbL
was translated in France for example.

There are already multiple initaitives around the world using CC for
data without even knowing this situation. But it's true that if CC
fixes this, there may not be any use anymore for ODC in general?

Benjamin from Regards Citoyens

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 15:34, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:>On
Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 14:58, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
>> As you know Creative Commons are planning to produce version 4 of
>> CC-BY-SA this year.  Having two separate silos for share-alike data is
>> not good, so we should find ways for ODbL and CC-BY-SA to
>> interoperate, or better still merge into a single licence.
>>
>> One difference of approach between ODC and CC is in the addition of
>> contract-law terms to the licence (making it not a true licence but a
>> contract).  I know that the contract-law part of ODbL is not
>> universally popular on this mailing list either.  I don't know the
>> full history but I think it might have been added specifically because
>> of Openstreetmap's requirements?
>>
>> Other than that the 'produced work' concept is something which could
>> be adopted by Creative Commons.  It seems that allowing 'produced
>> works' under different licences makes the ODbL slightly weaker than a
>> true copyleft.  It may fit into the hierarchy of licences as CC0 ->
>> CC-BY -> ODbL -> CC-BY-SA.  A kind of 'lesser share-alike' in the same
>> way that the FSF have the GPL and the Lesser GPL.  There, too, any
>> program licenced under the Lesser GPL can be distributed under the GPL
>> also.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>
>
> Are the silos even avoidable?  I thought ODbL dealt with database
> rights, while CC-BY and CC-BY-SA dealt with copyright.  That's a good
> thing because these rights are orthogonal but related, so it's very
> easy to screw things up if you try to combine them: see the
> non-free/open mess that often results when someone tries to use a
> copyright licence to enforce a trademark.
>
> Regards,
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