[okfn-discuss] Alpha ODI Open Data Certificates: comments please!

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Apr 8 08:55:41 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>wrote:

>
>
> Concerning the license option: you can now select "other" and then
> indicate whether it is an "open" license. This is shifting the problem
> towards the question "is this really an open license"? As a solution, I
> believe ODI should also keep a list of licenses for data that are really
> open. Organisations world-wide should be able to get the label "open
> license" from ODI and only these licenses should appear in the list.
>
> I completely agree.

I see ODI (in this discussion) as playing a similar role to OSI for F/OSS.
If that's a fair analogy then let's go for it.

P.




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Peter Murray-Rust
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