[License-discuss] Etalab license

[John Cowan]

Federico Leva (Nemo) scripsit:

> From the process it seems I can't submit for review a license I
> don't steward, but I'd be interested in comments on
> http://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence as it's used
> in http://thesaurus.cerl.org which is a good resource for Wikipedia
> and Wikidata.

It's an Open Data rather than an Open Source license, which makes
it out of our scope, but it looks like it would otherwise qualify.
It's basically a 3-clause BSD license, with two additional clauses:

1) The licensor warrants that there is no third-party intellectual
property in the data.  This is not practical for software licenses,
because it's always possible that someone holds a U.S patent in the
"machine" represented by the software.

2) The license is governed by French law.

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