One problem caused by Europe for free software is database licensing, which isn't quite the same as copyright over databases. Someone has published a first draft of an open data licence to try to cover this. Is this useful for free software or not?
Introduction: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/2007/09/24/open-data-commons-licence-now-out/ Draft: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-database-licence/ Discussion list: http://lists.opencontentlawyer.com/listinfo.cgi/tcl-discuss-opencontentlawyer.com I'm slightly concerned about the triple-whammy of database licensing, copyright licensing and a contract. I'm very happy to see the confusing CC-style anti-TPM wording made irrelevant by permitting parallel distribution. There's also an Open Data Factual Info Licence which puzzles me a bit because *information* is not covered by copyright, only the expression (the licence also seems to state this in point 2.4), so it seems a bit unnecessary. Please comment on the owner's site and/or here. I'll try to link the two in a few minutes. Thanks in advance, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
