Hi Andy, I was under the impression that the Crown Commons licenses were part of plans to improve the Click Use licenses - in particular to make an easy 'human readable' version, as well as having machine readable metadata, like the Creative Commons licenses.
Jonathan On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Andy Kaplan-Myrth<[email protected]> wrote: > Reading the Cabinet Office blog post on Berners-Lee helping the UK > with open information, I note that it mentions developing "'Crown > Commons' licenses". > > Does anybody know any more details about that, and whether there has > been any work done on that in the UK already? It's an area of interest > to us in Canada. Last month the Canadian House of Commons procedures > committee created a limited licence on "the proceedings of the House > of Commons and its Committees"[1] and we hope it will be a starting > point to build a Crown Commons type of licence here > [1] http://bit.ly/crowncommonscanada > > Any insight into the status of that initiative in the UK or elsewhere > would be welcome! > > Cheers, > Andy > > -- > Andy Kaplan-Myrth, M.A., LL.B. > Barrister & Solicitor > ------------------------------------------------ > email: [email protected] > web: http://kaplan-myrth.ca > blog: http://blog.kaplan-myrth.ca > ------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
