Menzo Windhouwer" <[email protected]>: > 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.
I'm not sure what "misattribution" means, but the attribution term present in all CC licenses is fairly comprehensive. A desire to make correct attribution a legal requirement for use of a work does NOT require NoDerivatives. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26549 has some details. > 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? Given the above, I hope you consider an OKD-compliant license. However, if for some reason you decide to use ND, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode does include "The above rights may be exercised in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter devised. The above rights include the right to make such modifications as are technically necessary to exercise the rights in other media and formats, but otherwise you have no rights to make Adaptations." Whether triplefiction would be covered, I have no idea. This uncertainty would be another reason to release under OKD-compliant terms. :) You could of course do the work of converting into triples and whatever other formats, then others don't need your permission to convert. Then you run into the issue of integration with whatever datasets and other works might be useful. Yet another reason... -- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
