[open-government] French open data license launched today!

[Rufus Pollock]

On 19 October 2011 10:31, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
> Hi everyone,
>
> Like the british OGL, it respects the OpenDefinition standards and is
> close to the ODC-BY licence.

The OGL is likely OD compatible (though not formally certified as
such) though there is some discussion re its additional
"integrity-style" clauses. See this very recent thread:

<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2011-October/000061.html>

If anyone is interested in contributing to this discussion please do
join the list [2]. If you are interested in submitting a license for
conformance see:

<http://opendefinition.org/licenses/process/>

[2]: <http://opendefinition.org/contact/>

> For french readers, we've just published our analysis that emphasizes
> the consequences for the french OpenData community and environment
> http://www.regardscitoyens.org/opendata-etalab-la-guerre-francaise-des-licences-sacheve/

Great to hear!

Rufus

> Maybe we should wait till there is actual data published under the
> licence, but it can certainly be added yes !
>
> Cheers !
>
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 14:36, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Here's the text:
>>
>> http://ddata.over-blog.com/xxxyyy/4/37/99/26/licence/Licence-Ouverte-Open-Licence-ENG.pdf
>>
>> Another one to add to OpenDefinition.org? ;-)
>>
>> J.
>>
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