Re: OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Seaman, Graham wrote:

> For a differing opinion see 
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33768, especially the last 
> paragraph. At least in the UK this opinion (a practical preference for 
> CC0 over CC-BY) seems to be becoming the consensus.

Many of the issues of requiring attribution ran its course back in the 
days of the 'original BSD license'  (vs. the '3-clause BSD license')

I don't agree with the GPL folks on the GPL vs. BSD front, but they have 
an explanation of how it causes problems:

 	http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html



... I seem to recall at the DataCite meeting last year, that John Wilbanks 
recommended CC0 for data.  (or maybe it was someone else ... or it was the 
BRDI meeting that was right before the DataCite meeting).

And whatever you do, don't *ever* release data under a CC-ND license, as 
no one has any clue what that means for data.  (are you not allowed to 
calibrate research data?  mash-ups / merge it with other data? 
re-distribute in a different processed form?  write a paper about the 
data?)

The ODC licenses at least distinguish between 'collective' and 
'extraction' vs. other 'derivitative' databases, so it's more clear what 
you're allowed to do with the data.

-Joe



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
> Sent: 23 August 2012 20:31
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License
>
> From Library Journal:
>  
> "OCLC is recommending that member institutions that would like to 
> release their catalog data on the Web do so with the Open Data Commons 
> Attribution License (ODC-BY)."
>  
> For more details, see: http://bit.ly/MP63Dc
>  
> Bernie Sloan
>