[okfn-help] Is It Open? email problems...

Tue Oct 13 17:24:12 UTC 2009

I opened a ticket saying that the 'Is It Open?' emails from person
making enquiry (me) are emailed to requester - but I'm not receiving
messages in reply to the ones that I send via email:

  http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/111

To follow this up - I have received my follow own follow up email
(below) - but still haven't received the reply to my original enquiry
via email.

Jonathan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Is It Open Enquiry Service <isitopen at okfn.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Data Openness Enquiry
To: Josh Tauberer <tauberer at govtrack.us>

Thanks for your reply Josh! I wonder if I could ask you what your
reason is for using a non-commercial license, as opposed to a license
which is open (as in opendefinition.org)?

I also wonder if you have seen the legal tools to make data open at:

 http://www.opendatacommons.org/

Warm regards,

Jonathan

> Hey,
>
> I've now added a note that it is CC-BY-NC-SA.
>
> - Josh Tauberer
> - CivicImpulse
>
> http://razor.occams.info
> http://www.civicimpulse.com
>
> "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!  Yields
> falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" Achilles to
> Tortoise (in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter)
>
> On 10/12/2009 11:30 AM, Is It Open Enquiry Service wrote:
> > Dear Josh,
> >
> > I am writing to you to check the legal status of your '2000 U.S. Census: 1 Billion RDF Triples' data - and to test our new 'Is it open?' service on CKAN.
> >
> > I am writing to seek clarification of the 'openness' [1] of this data:
> >
> >    http://www.rdfabout.com/demo/census/
> >
> > I wasn't able to find an explicit statement that the data was open such as a reference to an open knowledge or data license [2] so I'm writing to find out what the exact situation is. In particular we would like to know whether the material can be made available under an open license of some kind.
> >
> > Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to receiving your response.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jonathan Gray
> >
> > [1]<http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0/>
> > [2]<http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/>
> > --
> > Sent by "Is It Open?" (http://isitopen.ckan.net/about)
> > A service which helps scholars (and others) to request information
> > about the status and licensing of information.
--
Sent by "Is It Open?" (http://isitopen.ckan.net/about)
A service which helps scholars (and others) to request information
about the status and licensing of information.

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org