For pure data, the term license (in the sense of using a right to restrict usage - IP title for instance - to create a commons) is not adapted. In Europe, the Database protection directive has created proprietary rights on collection of data that do not meet the standard for copyright, and some have suggested to use them for open licenses, but I think it is a very bad idea to legitimate these absurd restrictive rights.
This was one of the reasons that led me to work on a direct positive recognition of protected commons where instead of using licenses, people could say "I donate this to the commons", and possibly attach a number of conditions provided they do not defeat the very idea of a universal commons. Obtaining this recognition in international norm setting arenas is a long process. So meanwhile one has to look for guidelines or ofther contractual arrangements rather than licenses. Look at Science Commons (www.sciencecommons.org) for some of these : scientific communities often have similar problems to yours : they produce pure data, generally attached with metadata, and often associated with some sensitive usage (for instance for personal biological data). In particular, you may find some inspiration in the HapMap directives : The Responsible Use and Publication of HapMap Data http://www.hapmap.org/guidelines_hapmap_data.html.en Best, Philippe Aigrain Le Thursday 06 March 2008 00:21:29 Francis Irving, vous avez écrit : > What license should we be licensing the data on GroupsNearYou under? > > http://www.groupsnearyou.com/api > > What licenses for basically pure data, with a tiny bit of copyright in > the descriptions, are suitable these days? > > Francis > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss -- Philippe Aigrain Founder and CEO, Sopinspace, Society for Public Information Spaces 4, passage de la Main d'Or, F-75011 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 55 28 37 65 - Fax: +33 1 55 28 37 69 [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.sopinspace.com ------------------------------------------------------ SARL Sopinspace, Society for Public Information Spaces RCS 451 436 604 - SIRET 451 436 604 00016 - APE 721Z _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
