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

[Maarten Zeinstra]

Hi all,

Compatibility matters, a lot. When you cannot mix two datasources or force a product of a mix into an unfavourable license things go bad. You cannot create new works by mixing CC-BY with ODC-BY or the UK's Open Government License. They are not compatible. 

This has major effects on the usability and economical viability of the open data market. In essence it creates three separate markets that cannot fully interact. 

Cheers,

Maarten

On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:37 , Jo Walsh <jo.walsh at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks, Joris,
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> Quoting Joris Pekel <okfn.joris.pekel at googlemail.com> on Wed, 8 Aug 2012 10:54:19 +0200:
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>> OCLC <http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/default.htm> announced yesterday that they
>> are recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License
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>> Why not go
>> CC0<http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/>
>> /PDDL <http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/>
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> Or, "why not go OdBL, with the full ShareAlike clause?" http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
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> The use of ODC-BY makes sense to me here, in that it has very similar terms to the Open Government License (in the UK). We want attribution, say data providers, while hesitant about the uncomfortable virality of ShareAlike (or unclear, with some reason, about its benefits). We dont want to worry about interoperability.
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> Why not? Who would gain? Who might lose out? Perhaps this line of thinking is too Anglo-Saxon. Go Europeana!
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