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okfn / opendatacommons

Legacy Open Data Commons website. Moved to https://github.com/okfn/opendatacommons.org
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ODbL 1.0: dead link to plain language summary #10

Open salim-b opened 5 years ago

salim-b commented 5 years ago

The page dedicated to the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 links to a Plain language summary of the license. The URL is 

http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/summary/

and leads to an XML file containing an error message:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><Error><Code>NoSuchKey</Code><Message>The specified key does not exist.</Message><Details>No such object: opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/summary/index.html</Details></Error>

The mentioned human readable summary is actually available under the following URL:

https://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/index.html

Please fix this :)

simonpoole commented 5 years ago

I've noticed this before too, likely the summary should be versioned too though.

In any case the OKFN seems to have lost all interest in their stewardship of the licences. And while there isn't an active search for a new body to take over, I believe offers would be very welcome (that is from the community that uses these licences).

salim-b commented 5 years ago

likely the summary should be versioned too though

Exactly!

In any case the OKFN seems to have lost all interest in their stewardship of the licences.

Why is that? Is there any public announcement from the OKFN regarding this?

simonpoole commented 5 years ago

Why is that? Is there any public announcement from the OKFN regarding this?

My best guess would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXd155v8Z5U

mlinksva commented 5 years ago

The code in this repo doesn't serve the live site (#4). If there were some indication that would happen, I'd be happy to volunteer some effort in fixing bugs like this.

I think it's fine to make changes in the summaries to make them more accurate, more readable, or to fix bugs. The license texts are the things that can't change without versioning.

That YT link points to a video titled "All about the money" for anyone who doesn't want to click. No idea if anything nefarious is being implied, but my guess is it might be true (about money) but in a very boring way -- hard to get any grants etc to maintain something that looks done, indeed can't be changed.