- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:16:41 +0100
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Marc Wick <marc@geonames.org>
- CC: "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>, Peter Ferne <petef@jivatechnology.com>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Thank you all. Very helpful. On 08/06/2009 12:45, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org> wrote: > Agreed. Go for CC0. > Disclaimers are an orthogonal issue I *hope*. > > On 2009-06 -08, at 00:13, Marc Wick wrote: > >> >>>> 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 > >
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