Dear all, I forward a question about licenses which might be of more general importance. It concerns licenses for the content of databases, where triplification should be permitted, but no other alterations (for whatever reason). This would be some kind of "some-derivatives" license. I understand that such a license would not meet the Open Definition, but for the case at hand, it might be this or nothing. Any ideas how to deal with this issue legally? Best wishes Sebastian ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Menzo Windhouwer" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "Marjan Grootveld ([email protected])" <[email protected]>, "Alexis Dimitriadis" <[email protected]> Subject: [open-linguistics] Options for licenses Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:15:08 +0100 Dear all, I would also like to take the opportunity to thank the organizers and all participants for the interesting days on Linked Data for Linguistics! Being back I was looking at the license of the various data sets we've in the Typological Database System (TDS). Soon these will be available under the Open Access policy of the DANS archive (see http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/content/data-archive/terms-and-conditions). However, these won't directly allow one to republish the data or make derivative works. Releasing (some of) the sets on a Create Commons license with attribution could be an option. But possibly No-Derivatives would also be needed to prevent the data set from modification and misattribution. However, that would prevent someone to turn it into triples even while the content stays the same. One would need some kind of license that keep content and attribution intact but allows for new representations. Does someone know of such a license or has any other examples of licenses more suitable for databases? Regards, Menzo -- Menzo Windhouwer e-mail:[email protected] Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics |
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