[okfn-help] licences types

Mon May 16 11:11:16 UTC 2011

Hi Matej,

I'm Cc'ing OKFN-Help to ensure that I have my facts correct on this one.

Both Creative Commons and the OKF now have licenses covering data but
this was not always the case. Creative Commons original focus was
'content' rather than 'data' and data differs from content in terms of
Intellectual Property Law. Now, from the OKF side, we put emphasis
only on the need to license the data, without stressing one or the
other as being preferable.

Some places, including many government databases, license their data
with our license, others prefer the CC one - but I don't think you
would be disadvantaged either way!

Hopefully this entry from the OpenDataCommons FAQ may help:
http://www.opendatacommons.org/faq/licenses/#why-not-use-a-creative-commons-or-freeopen-source-software-license-for-databases.

I hope that helps, please feel free to contact me again if you have
further questions!

Lucy

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Matej Kurian <kurian at transparency.sk> wrote:
> Hi Lucy,
>
> I have a quick question.
>
> We're finally getting to think about licensing our projects - and are a
> little bit perplexed by the variety of licenses out there.  What we are
> thinking is a "free", "compulsory attribution" and  perhaps
> "non-commercial".  are there any major differences between creative commons
> and open data on this one?
>
> You can see the project in question on -
> http://vestnik-test.democracyfarm.org/en/report/all.
>
> Cheers,
> Matej
>
> --
> Matej Kurian
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> Transparency International Slovensko
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> (+421.02).5341.72.07
>
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>
>
>

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Lucy Chambers
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Open Knowledge Foundation
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