[okfn-discuss] Crown Commons?

Tue Jun 16 10:47:17 UTC 2009

Hi Andy,

I was under the impression that the Crown Commons licenses were part
of plans to improve the Click Use licenses - in particular to make an
easy 'human readable' version, as well as having machine readable
metadata, like the Creative Commons licenses.

Jonathan

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Andy Kaplan-Myrth<andy at kaplan-myrth.ca> wrote:
> Reading the Cabinet Office blog post on Berners-Lee helping the UK
> with open information, I note that it mentions developing "'Crown
> Commons' licenses".
>
> Does anybody know any more details about that, and whether there has
> been any work done on that in the UK already? It's an area of interest
> to us in Canada. Last month the Canadian House of Commons procedures
> committee created a limited licence on "the proceedings of the House
> of Commons and its Committees"[1] and we hope it will be a starting
> point to build a Crown Commons type of licence here
>   [1] http://bit.ly/crowncommonscanada
>
> Any insight into the status of that initiative in the UK or elsewhere
> would be welcome!
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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