[open-bibliography] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] University of Ghent LibraryCatalogues: Open or Not?

Thu Mar 25 21:41:27 UTC 2010

Dear Christopher,

There has been considerable discussion, I understand, between OKF and CC 
about data licenses, which may be still ongoing.  CC is now recommending 
their "CCZero" license for datasets, since this avoids the potential 
problem of managing the "attribution stacking" that would result from 
automatic data  aggregation from several sources using conventional 
attribution licenses of any kind.  You  are advised to take these 
arguments into consideration before deciding what to do for EPrints.

For FlyTED (http://www.fly-ted.org), which as you know uses the EPrints 
software platform, we have, after discussions with John Wilbanks, 
adopted CCZero licenses for metadata and thumbnails, and normal CC 
attribution licences for high resolution images.

Dryad (http://datadryad.org/repo), which is a repository for datasets 
linked to journal articles, has also adopted CCZero licenses.

Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> For reference, we're planning to release the next version of EPrints 
> with the following default configuration.
> ---[snip---
> # Licence to be inserted into all RDF data.
>
> # We suggest using Open Data Commons licenses as these are more sutiable 
> for
> # data than normal Creative Commons. Follow the license URLs for more
> # information.
>
> # $c->{rdf}->{license} = "http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/";
> # OR
> # $c->{rdf}->{license} = "http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/";
>
> # $c->{rdf}->{attributionName} = ".....";
> # $c->{rdf}->{attributionURL} = ".....";
> ---[snip---
>
> Suggestions are welcome... We release in a few days.
>
>
> Rufus Pollock wrote:
>   
>> On 25 March 2010 00:36, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Thanks Lukas, that's incredibly useful to know and I'll try getting in
>>>> touch with them direct.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> The license information seems to have changed.
>>>
>>> http://lib.ugent.be/info/en/exports.shtml
>>>     
>>>       
>> Indeed. After we found the exports, I was put in touch with Patrick
>> Hochstenbach (now on this list) the man behind those exports. After a
>> bit of discussion he kindly agreed to relicense under the
>> http://opendefinition.org/ compliant ODbL.
>>
>> I meant to notify the list about this but obviously must have forgotten!
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> It is now "All Meercat exports with the Open Knowledge icon   are made
>>> available under the Open Database License:
>>> http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/." instead of some -nc
>>> closeness.
>>>
>>> Sweet!
>>>     
>>>       
>> Very much so :)
>>
>> Rufus
>>   
>>     
>
>   
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Dr David Shotton                                                      
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