[Labs-l] Licensing: CC vs. ODbL vs. ???

[Ryan Lane]

What we are really intending is that content needs to be under an
acceptable open content license. This text likely needs to be rewritten to
include more acceptable licenses.

It's easy to include open source licenses because we have an organization
that certifies what counts as open source. Is there a similar organization
for open content licenses?

On Thursday, September 27, 2012, Erik Moeller wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Andrew Bogott <abogott at wikimedia.org<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> >     Currently the labs Terms of Use says " all content must be freely
> > licensable under an applicable creative commons license."  That seems to
> > exclude OSM data, which surely is not our intent.  I note that the item
> just
> > before that (about software licenses) uses a more expansive term, "
> > OSI-approved open source licenses."  Is there a similar umbrella term
> that
> > we can use for content that would include CC-like licenses without
> > restricting users to actual, literal CC licensing?
>
> Per our licensing policy, the definition at
> http://freedomdefined.org/Definition is our canonical equivalent of
> the OSI for free content licenses, so it would make sense to use it as
> a reference point in the same manner, e.g.
>
> "all content must be licensable under an applicable free cultural
> works license as per the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
> Definition of Free Cultural Works]".
>
> Disclosure: I co-authored both the WMF licensing policy and the DFCW.
> Legal should be able to confirm that the language above is workable.
>
> Erik
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