[open-bibliography] Adapting the Panton/openbiblio principles regarding new version of CC licenses

Mon Jan 6 10:05:16 UTC 2014

Hello,

my excuses for accidently sending a draft mail to the list. Here now a
less "drafty" version.

As you probably know Creative Commons released version 4.0 of its
license suite in November 2013. One significant change was that the
licenses were made suitable for licensing data in the EU. Like Timothy
Vollmer put it on the OKFN blog:

"Probably the most significant improvement is the expansion in license
scope to include sui generis database rights–those copyright-like
rights that exist in Europe and a few other countries which are
granted to those who exert some effort into compiling a database. The
4.0 licenses (of course, those aligned with the Open Definition) are
now better suited for use by governments and publishers of public
sector information and open data." [1]

Following this change, a change to the Principles of Open
Bibliographic Data as well as to the Panton Principles on which the
openbiblio principles build is necessary. Currently it reads in the
openbiblio principles (as well as in the
Panton Principles): "Creative Commons licenses (apart from CC0), GFDL,
GPL, BSD, etc. are NOT  appropriate for data and their use is STRONGLY
discouraged."

As the linked list with OKD-compliant licenses for content and data
[2] already reflects the changes that came with the 4.0 version of CC
licenses the easiest and probably most sensible option would to just
delete the above
sentence. (This would also make it easier to adapt the translations.)

All the best
Adrian

[1] http://blog.okfn.org/2013/11/28/creative-commons-version-4-0-released/

[2] http://opendefinition.org/licenses/#Data

On 6 January 2014 10:58, Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as you probably know Creative Commons released version 4.0 of its
> license suite in November 2013. One significant change was that the
> licenses were made suitable for licensing data in the EU. Like Timothy
> Vollmer put it on the OKFN blog:
>
>
> - The version 4.0 of CC licenses makes all CC licenses suitable for
> licensing data, including the EU
> - Currently it reads in the openbiblio principles (as well as in the
> Panton Principles): "Creative Commons licenses (apart from CC0), GFDL,
> GPL, BSD, etc. are NOT  appropriate for data and their use is STRONGLY
> discouraged."
> - The linked list with OKD-compliant licenses for content and data
> already reflects the changes that came with the 4.0 version of CC
> licenses, see http://opendefinition.org/licenses/#Data . Thus, the
> easiest and probably most sensible option would to just delete this
> sentence. (This would also make it easier to adapt the translations