[okfn-discuss] Fwd: [open-linguistics] Options for licenses

Mon Mar 12 11:26:09 UTC 2012

Dear all,

I forward a question about licenses which might be of more general  
importance. It concerns licenses for the content of databases, where  
triplification should be permitted, but no other alterations (for whatever  
reason).

This would be some kind of "some-derivatives" license.

I understand that such a license would not meet the Open Definition, but  
for the case at hand, it might be this or nothing.

Any ideas how to deal with this issue legally?

Best wishes

Sebastian

------- Forwarded message -------
From: "Menzo Windhouwer" <Menzo.Windhouwer at mpi.nl>
To: "open-linguistics at lists.okfn.org" <open-linguistics at lists.okfn.org>
Cc: "Marjan Grootveld (marjan.grootveld at dans.knaw.nl)"  
<marjan.grootveld at dans.knaw.nl>, "Alexis Dimitriadis" <A.Dimitriadis at uu.nl>
Subject: [open-linguistics] Options for licenses
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:15:08 +0100

Dear all,

I would also like to take the opportunity to thank the organizers and all  
participants for the interesting days on Linked Data for Linguistics!

Being back I was looking at the license of the various data sets we've in  
the Typological Database System (TDS). Soon these will be available under  
the Open Access policy of the DANS archive (see  
http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/content/data-archive/terms-and-conditions).  
However, these won't directly allow one to republish the data or make  
derivative works. Releasing (some of) the sets on a Create Commons license  
with attribution could be an option. But possibly No-Derivatives would  
also be needed to prevent the data set from modification and  
misattribution. However, that would prevent someone to turn it into  
triples even while the content stays the same. One would need some kind of  
license that keep content and attribution intact but allows for new  
representations. Does someone know of such a license or has any other  
examples of licenses more suitable for databases?

Regards,

Menzo

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Menzo Windhouwer

e-mail:Menzo.Windhouwer at mpi.nl

Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics

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