Category Archives: Licensing

Another comment on FSF Europe, this time about intent and purpose of the Open Data Commons Factual Information Licence. This continues on from a previous post on opencontentlawyer: There’s also an Open Data Factual Info Licence which puzzles me a … Continue reading →

Another comment from a discussion on Nodalities, this time about Creative Commons and databases: Science Commons has a page with some explanations regarding Creative Commons and databases. It seems that two of the European versions of the Creative Commons licenses … Continue reading →

Another comment from a mailing list: This looks like it’s falling into what I’ll call “the maximalist paradox” — That is the intention to “free” even more culture by instituting more laws that can be leveraged in a copyleft way … Continue reading →

Another set of questions, this time on the FSF-Europe list I’m slightly concerned about the triple-whammy of database licensing, copyright licensing and a contract. The reason why database rights and copyright are in the same licence is because they overlap … Continue reading →

A question about contract and the Open Data Commons Database licence came up on one of the lists. Why would I want to apply *additional* restrictions in a jurisdiction where there are no copyright or exclusive rights for databases? This … Continue reading →

Rob Myers wrote some excellent questions, and here is a response. I separated it out to a blog post to make it a bit more user-friendly, as there is a lot here to address. Thanks Rob for taking the time … Continue reading →

Introducing the draft Open Data Commons – Databases licence This licence was inspired by the Talis Community Licence, and draws heavily from the work of others in the open source, free software, and open content community. Many of the ideas … Continue reading →

Open access to data, or just ‘open data’ is an issue that has been making the rounds in the scientific community for quite some time now. Some of the problems with increasing access are practical (what format it is in, … Continue reading →