[Commons-l] Fwd: [ORG-discuss] Open Data Commons draft licence

[David Gerard]

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From: Jordan S Hatcher <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com>
Date: 24 Sep 2007 15:27
Subject: [ORG-discuss] Open Data Commons draft licence
To: Open Rights Group open discussion list
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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

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Mr. Jordan S Hatcher, JD, LLM

jordan at opencontentlawyer dot com
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