Hi Peter, Cc'ing the Open Data Commons discuss list for clarification on the points you have raised.
We will be in touch soon, Lucy On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Peter B. Hirtle <[email protected]> wrote: > Sirs: > > > > I am very much encouraging our data projects at Cornell to use ODC licenses, > but people have been deeply confused by your web pages, particularly the web > page relating to the ODC-BY license. I hope that you can help with these > questions. > > > > 1. On http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/, you indicate that > ODC-BY is “Attribution for data/databases.” In the text of the license > itself, however, you specify that ODC-BY does not apply to data, but only to > databases: “…this license only governs the rights over the Database, and not > the contents of the Database individually.” Is ODC-BY only for databases? > If so, why are you calling it “data/databases”? > > 2. If it is only for databases, as the legal code seems to suggest, > what license should be used to license content with only an attribution > requirement? > > 3. On http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/, under “How to > apply,” you give language that refers only to databases, and not data > content (see question 1 above). This is in contrast to the ODbL license > http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/), which has one sentence that > refers to the database, and a second sentence that refers to the database > content. Why no second sentence for content in the ODC-BY license – > especially since Footnote 2 on the ODC-BY page refers to replacing the > (non-existent) second sentence? > > 4. The ODC-ODbL license refers to the Database Contents License: > http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/, for data. This is not listed > as a license under your list of licenses. Are there other database commons > licenses (such as an attribution license for database contents)? > > > > Peter B. Hirtle > > Senior Policy Advisor and Fellow, Society of American Archivists > > Digital Scholarship Services > > Cornell University Library > > 2B53 Kroch Library > Ithaca, NY 14853 > [email protected] > t. 607.255-4033 > f. 607.255-9524 > > http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/vivo/individual23436 > > Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. > Libraries, Archives, and Museums: > > http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142 > > -- Lucy Chambers Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: lucyfediachambers _______________________________________________ odc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/odc-discuss
