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GovDataOfficial / DCAT-AP.de

Deutsche Adaption des „Data Catalogue Application Profile“ (DCAT-AP) für Datenportale in Europa
https://www.dcat-ap.de/
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Open License (ISA Open Metadata License) #5

Closed Ludee closed 4 years ago

Ludee commented 6 years ago

At the moment, this repository is lacking an (open) license. The DCAT-AP is licensed under ISA Open Metadata Licence v1.1.

Since this is a relatively new license, it is not yet registered in the SPDX or the Open Definition. In order to be accepted by a large community, it should be approved as "free/open". Here is a link how to apply for the License Approval Process of the open definition.

robbiemorrison commented 6 years ago

Just to support the comment above. And to note that the SPDX project does not approve open software licenses, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) do that instead. But in this case, seeking Open Definition approval would be the better approach. In addition, if you have legal advice on how this license interoperates with other common permissive licenses, including the Creative Commons family, then making that information public would be very useful. HTH, Robbie.

GKStGovData commented 6 years ago

Thank you for your suggestions. We will check them and take them into consideration in our review for DCAT-AP.de version 1.1.

robbiemorrison commented 6 years ago

Thanks. Just to be clear. Once you have sought and gained open license approval from the Open Definition project, you should then talk to the SPDX project and register a license identifier. I guess that would be something like ISA-OML-1.1 or ISA-Open-Metadata-1.1. Machine scannable license identifiers are becoming increasingly important with the development and deployment of automated license compliance tooling. And perhaps in the future, database management systems will also become metadata aware?

akuckartz commented 5 years ago

@robbiemorrison It is important to use URLs to identify licenses. That eliminates or reduces the requirement for registers. See also https://www.dcat-ap.de/def/licenses/

GKStGovData commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/SEMICeu/DCAT-AP/issues/63 As DCAT-AP 2.0 solved this Issue by going under cc-by 4.0 we will follow them when upgrading on DCAT-AP.de 2.0.