[okfn-help] licences types

Wed May 18 13:14:21 UTC 2011

Dear Matej,

>From the OKF's point of view the main thing in choosing a data license
is to make sure it is open as in opendefinition.org:

http://opendefinition.org/

There's a list of conformant data licenses at:

http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/

You should definitely avoid "noncommercial" licenses - as these are
not open and it will mean the data cannot be freely mixed and
redistributed with other open data sources.

Hope this helps!

All the best,

Jonathan

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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
>>
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>> (+421.02).5341.72.07
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
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