On Sep 17, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I read this story on Newsforge, the imminence of this (expected THIS fall) makes it really something. The material is of such a quality, the breath of their data, the pictures alone, this is really big news ! As the article says, openining up this content to the public, will make the British culture much more important.
The license they will use will be the Creative Commons license.
Which of the several Creative Commons licenses will be used? Many of them are very restrictive (eg noncommercial-noderivs). One thing I've found very unfortunate about the Creative Commons project is that their overarching name gets bandied about in public as though it referred to a particular license -- the opposite of what they intend, which is to be able to label things distinctly with human- and machine-readable license information.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)