On 12 April 2014 15:58, Carsten Agger <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote Digitaliseringsstyrelsen, or rather the civil servant in charge > of open data and this license, and she has answered that this is really > a bug in the license. > What they had *wanted* to say is that the license does not release the > recipient from obligations to fulfill other legal requirements, and that > the authority cannot be held responsible for unlawful use of the data. > I've been told that since they had wanted to make a clear and > unambiguous license, they now intend to replace the "ensure data are > used in accordance with the law" clause with a disclaimer as outlined > above - which wouldn't be a problem, since it can't be read as a further > restriction. > Basically, they answered that this is a bug in the license and they hope > to be able to fix it in the next version. This is good news, especially > if they make the change soon.
Excellent news! \o/ Good work! BTW, this is why the Creative Commons 3.0.1 licenses exist - because a mention of "moral rights" looked a bit much like a condition rather than a disclaimer, so they released a clarified version. - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
