- From: Pascal Hitzler <pascal.hitzler@wright.edu>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:46:19 -0400
- To: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- CC: SW-forum Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 6/1/2013 1:17 PM, Sören Auer wrote: > Am 01.06.2013 18:58, schrieb Pascal Hitzler: >> Concerning the definition given on the website you indicate: >> >> "A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and >> redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute >> and/or share-alike." >> >> - let me play devil's advocate here and suggest an alternative >> definition, just to make a point: >> >> "A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and >> redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute >> and/or share-alike, or to paying suitable royalties to the data creator >> or provider." >> >> But more seriously - you probably see the point: A phrasing like >> >> "A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and >> redistribute it — subject to no restrictions" >> >> would be a more serious alternative. As soon as you make restrictions, >> things get tricky - and this is exactly one of the points in the paper >> we circulated. Attribution or share-alike can already be showstoppers, >> and for some context can render LOD/LD *non-reusable* - in which case >> the term "open" appears to be rather misleading. > > Sure, requirements like "attribution" and "share-alike" are showstoppers > for *some* business models, but definitely not for data-driven > businesses in general. > > Let's always look at the open-source analog (they are a few years ahead > of us): Most open-source licenses require attribution and quite some > prominent ones (such as GPL) also sharing-alike and still open-source > software is big business (look at Red Hat, the 1Bn open-source business > IBM makes every year with Linux alone or all the OS software used and > produced by Internet and Web giants). > > The share-alike requirement actually has two sides, it can prevent some > business from reusing the data, but also gives the original data > publisher a competitive advantage, since he can dual license his data > commercially without the share-alike requirement, so I think it is at > least as much a business facilitator as it is a showstopper. Yes. But what you say confirms my argument that "open" is not so boolean in meaning :) Pascal. > Sören -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal@pascal-hitzler.de http://pascal-hitzler.de/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org/ Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/
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