Open_Database_License and OSM contributor terms

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Mon Jun 6 16:42:11 UTC 2011


I don't believe OKFN has ever considered submitting their licenses to OSI.

Questions about the ODBL itself are probably best directed to the Open
Knowledge Foundation discussion list:

okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org

HTH-
Luis

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:35 AM,  <josh at postgresql.org> wrote:
> Mike,
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>> I have some questions about the ODBL
>> http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
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> To date, OSI has not reviewed or certified any oben content licenses, which
> are necessarily different in structure from open source licenses.  This has
> been discussed, but currently is not a practice of OSI.
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> I've been thinking of setting up a new working group on open content, but
> that would put us at least a year away from certifying anyone.
>
> --Josh Berkus
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