---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jordan S Hatcher jordan@opencontentlawyer.com Date: 24 Sep 2007 15:27 Subject: [ORG-discuss] Open Data Commons draft licence To: Open Rights Group open discussion list org-discuss@lists.openrightsgroup.org
All,
I would like to announce the draft Open Data Commons Database licence. This is the new name, face, and text of the Talis Community Licence update that I may have mentioned in an earlier email. A special thanks to Talis for sponsoring the update.
It is an attempt at a worldwide licence for data. In Creative Commons terms it is an SA licence.
The blog post announcing its release is here: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/2007/09/24/open-data-commons-licence- now-out/ Or try: http://tinyurl.com/32ekh6
The homepage on my site for information related to the licence is here: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/
The draft text of the licence itself is located here: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-database-licence/
Because we separated out the Data from the Database in the licensing, a supplemental BSD/MIT style licence for the data, intended for factual information rather than other "contents of databases" is here: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-data-commons-factual- info-licence/
Finally, though I suspect that we will have a lot to talk about on this list, I've set up a discuss list specifically for the licence here: http://lists.opencontentlawyer.com/listinfo.cgi/tcl-discuss- opencontentlawyer.com
Thanks!
~Jordan
____ Mr. Jordan S Hatcher, JD, LLM
jordan at opencontentlawyer dot com IP/IT Blog: http://twitchgamer.net
Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007
"The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Information Technology Based Business" http://ssrn.com/abstract=984864
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