[cc-licenses] New licensing buttons
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Apr 2 16:51:35 EDT 2007
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:27 +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> I've long been meaning to write to the list about the Open Knowledge
> Definition and Erik's mail has finally prompted me to do so.
>
> The Open Knowledge Definition (http://opendefinition.org/) was started
> just over a year and a half ago and went '1.0' in September 2006. It
> aims to provide a definition of the 'open' in open
> knowledge/data/content etc.
>
> It is heavily based on the open source definition and the
> Budapest/Bethseda/Berlin definition of open access (also, unsurprisingly
> given the common aims of the Definition of Free Cultural Works and the
> Open Knowledge Definition, these two definitions are in essence
> identical.) The formal requirements can be found at:
>
> http://opendefinition.org/1.0/
"Conventiently modifiable form" and "availability of source data" is
potentially a big difference.
> Similar to the Free Cultural Works logo there is also a set of logos/web
> buttons which people can use to label their work as 'open':
>
> http://opendefinition.org/buttons
Great, you're most of the way towards my suggestion at
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2007-April/005384.html :)
Another nit -- you intend this to be used for "open data" but in many
cases data is not copyrightable, so any copyright license granted could
be somewhere between misleading and, er, anti-freedom. :) As data is so
prominent in the definition you might want to explain this to people.
One attempt is at http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/databases.html
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