[okfn-discuss] David Wiley on 'Defining Open'

Mon Nov 30 16:54:18 UTC 2009

Just spotted this:

  http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123

In particular:

> In the past, some people unaffiliated with opencontent.org have taken it upon themselves to “define the open in open content” and propose artificial definitions like those described above. The Open Knowledge Definition is one such attempt, which is an adaptation of the Open Source Definition, which is itself an adaptation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Wonder if it would be worth responding in a blog post - in particular
explaining why OKD exists and what its for?

David has always been pro-NC licenses, which is what I suspect this is
partly about (NC stuff being 'open'). On an unrelated note he's also
involved in Flat World Knowledge - and I think their business model
uses NC licenses.

  http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/our-team

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Jonathan Gray

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