[cc-community] New Science Commons protocol and the Open Data Commons legal tools

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Tue Dec 18 10:18:36 EST 2007


Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> One thing - and I agree here with Gavin - it's unclear to me what 
> "protocol" here means. Is it a license? A standard? Something else?

The jargon meaning of "protocol" is "a process that you follow". In this
case, to make data "Open Access" (which would make it a "standard"
protocol). Applying a particular license (or member of a set of
licenses) would be one step in that protocol.

There are apparently other things that must be done as well.

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
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