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Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

From: Marc Wick <marc@geonames.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:13:19 +0200
Message-ID: <4A2C8FDF.3040302@geonames.org>
CC: Peter Ferne <petef@jivatechnology.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>

>> Added some words in the about - any advice as to what the licence
>> might be?
>> I guess there is some cc licence that corresponds to:
>> "The information is provided as-is and without any warranty.
>> It is freely available for any use as you wish."
> 
> 
> I would suggest you want the Open Database Licence [1].
> 
> [1]: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/

Definitely not. The Open Database License is a kind of share-alike 
license. share-alike does not work for data and cannot be considered 
open. It prevents nearly all interesting use cases and is the contrary 
of "freely available for any use as you wish".
The cc0 licenses Nathan is suggesting are more what you are looking for.

Best

Marc
Received on Monday, 8 June 2009 04:14:24 GMT

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