[open-linguistics] Options for licenses

Mon Mar 12 14:38:23 UTC 2012

This does not look good for Open Access, the closest seems to be CC-by-nd-nc:

"Users are only allowed to download the dataset for personal use. He or she is not allowed to copy the datasets, or substantial parts thereof, for other purposes. Users are not allowed to make any commercial use of the dataset, for instance by selling it. Copyrights of third parties must always be respected."

As far as I know, "Non-Derivatives" is not considered really open by most. I personally at least consider it unusable. I think this option was the biggest mistake of the Creative Commons: they should have never included that option in the first place.

best
michael

On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:15, Menzo Windhouwer wrote:

> Dear all,
>  
> I would also like to take the opportunity to thank the organizers and all participants for the interesting days on Linked Data for Linguistics!
>  
> Being back I was looking at the license of the various data sets we've in the Typological Database System (TDS). Soon these will be available under the Open Access policy of the DANS archive (seehttp://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/content/data-archive/terms-and-conditions). However, these won't directly allow one to republish the data or make derivative works. Releasing (some of) the sets on a Create Commons license with attribution could be an option. But possibly No-Derivatives would also be needed to prevent the data set from modification and misattribution. However, that would prevent someone to turn it into triples even while the content stays the same. One would need some kind of license that keep content and attribution intact but allows for new representations. Does someone know of such a license or has any other examples of licenses more suitable for databases?
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> Regards,
>  
> Menzo
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