[open-heritage] OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for WorldCat data

[Joris Pekel]

Dear list,

OCLC <http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/default.htm> announced yesterday that they
are recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License
(ODC-BY<http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/>)
for member institutions that would like to release their library catalog
data on the Web.

http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=17111

Although the move towards open sounds great, I am personally a bit
skeptical about the license they have chosen. Why not go
CC0<http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/>
/PDDL <http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/> with their metadata
catalogues? What would this for example mean for collaborations with
Europeana who are now in the proces of licensing all of their metadata
under a CC0-license.

Love to hear your thoughts,

-- 
Joris Pekel
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org
http://twitter.com/jpekel
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