- From: Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:12:35 +0100
- To: Ghislain Atemezing <auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr>
- Cc: public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>, Serena Villata <serena.villata@inria.fr>
Hi, Yes, I'm aware of L4LOD. It's essentially the same as LIMO, ccREL and, to a lesser extent, ODRL. All of these attempt to provide terms for describing the key facets of licenses. The benefit of ccREL is that all of the CC licences are already described using those terms so the machine-readable metadata exists. Thanks for the pointer to the paper. However from a quick skim I must admit to being confused by their Real World example in Section 3.6. While the logic might be correct in the derivation of the combined licence, its not a great example because: * You can't create a new derived dataset using data published under a no-derivatives licence -- so the scenario isn't allowed * The legal terms of the ODbL licence indicate that any derivatives that are shared publicly must be done so under the ODbL or a compatible licence designated by the publisher -- the derived licence is neither So while there may be some value in being able to automatically create summaries of the combined obligations/permissions of licences, I think this is at most useful for helping understand your obligations, not the creation of new downstream licences. Partly because it glosses over important legal points in the terms, and partly because the community is not best served by a proliferation of licences. Convergence creates simplicity. Cheers, L. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Ghislain Atemezing <auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr> wrote: > Hi Leigh, > Nice work indeed! I confess I didn't go through all the guide. > >> This work looks at the implications of various open licences on the >> creation of derived datasets. There's a blog post with pointers here: >> >> http://theodi.org/blog/exploring-compatibility-between-data-licences >> >> If anyone has any comments then please let me know. > > I was wondering if there were connection with the work of Serena et al. at > INRIA (WIMIX team) on License composition...basically with this ontology > L4LOD (Licenses for Linked Open Data) [1], and this paper [2] explains all > the logic behind. > > > Cheers, > Ghislain > > > > [1] http://ns.inria.fr/l4lod/v2/l4lod_v2.html > [2] http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/Resources/icail2013.pdf > -- > Ghislain Atemezing > EURECOM, Multimedia Communications Department > Campus SophiaTech > 450, route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. > e-mail: auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr & ghislain.atemezing@gmail.com > Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8178 > Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 > Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~atemezin > -- Leigh Dodds Freelance Technologist Open Data, Linked Data Geek t: @ldodds w: ldodds.com e: leigh@ldodds.com
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