On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Craig James <[email protected]> wrote: > BO itself, in spite of being dedicated to "the concepts of Open Data, Open > Standards and Open Source," doesn't actually state in a meaningful way what > those terms mean. English-language prose are nice, but legal documents have > meaning. > > I just gave myself 5 minutes to see if I could find anything concreted on > blueobelisk.org regarding licenses, and failed to find anything. There's one > obscure link to opensource.org, and if you dig around there you can find over > 60 "open source" licenses. > > If BO is about open chemistry standards, we could say that a lot more > concisely by recommending specific licenses. One or two each for programs, > documentation, and data.
The Debian project has a so-called Free Software Guidelines, which specify which rights software should have to be called 'Free'... it does not tie this to a particular license, though statements are made elsewhere about which licenses are DFSG-compatible. The lack of an equivalent for the Blue Obelisk is certainly making things fuzzy... at least, I was fooled into thinking that standards should include the right to modify them if the need occurs (which I still think should be part of that definition)... it seems there are more people that believe standards do not require to include that right we do require for Data and Source (which I find inconsistent...) Perhaps we should draft a Blue Obelisk ODOSOS Guidelines document listing the minimum rights for the three ODOSOS pillars. Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
