[open-bibliography] OCLC ODbL?

Fri Jun 3 11:54:15 UTC 2011

"Jo Walsh" <metazool at gmail.com> asked:
> Hello - sorry if i've missed this in the digest, but i just saw on
> "Twitter" that OCLC is releasing 1M bibliographic records as Linked
> Data using the ODbL license.
> 
> http://twitter.com/#!/psychemedia/status/76580909683445760
> 
> What's the story?

The thread starts
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-bibliography/2011-May/000983.html
and basically it's not as good as it seems.  ODbL but still restrictive
usage policy, AIUI.

Hope that helps
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