[open-bibliography] Releasing LibraryThing data under CC-BY or equivalent?

Wed Oct 27 12:35:34 UTC 2010

Dear Tim,

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
> And I'm interested in whether LT should release its data to OKF, and
> if we did, what licenses could be applied to it. For example, we
> offered to release our Common Knowledge data to Open Library, but they
> refused the CC-Attribution license we proposed.

Just to follow this up: it would be *amazing* if LT would be willing
to release a dump of its data under CC-BY or equivalent (e.g. ODC
Attribution license for data [1])!

What do you think?

[1] http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/

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