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Open Definition source
https://opendefinition.org/
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Don't forget the license version and full name #59

Closed Croydon closed 10 years ago

Croydon commented 10 years ago

Title says it all :)

mlinksva commented 10 years ago

Thanks! I'm additionally going to update to 4.0 as that's what https://okfn.org/ip-policy/ says though of course I think we should upgrade-to-0 okfn/foundation#177 :)

Croydon commented 10 years ago

Everytime you change the license everybody have to agree ofc. Maybe you all should think of an "or any later version" phrase ;)

Croydon commented 10 years ago

I just realised that the Creative Commons BY-SA licenses habe such a phrase via default, and without copyleft it's not that much important I suppose. Nervermind.

mlinksva commented 10 years ago

@Croydon yes it isn't so important without copyleft, but you're correct about license changes and desirability of future versions clause. I don't feel bad about this instance because it has been done before -- stuff on the OD site has originally been published under at least CC-BY 2.0, 2.5, or 3.0 already, and possibly there's something on the site originally published under 1.0 on an earlier OKFN site. CC-BY-SA style later version clause doesn't actually fix the problem as it only applies to adaptations. GPL style later version clause does, but it is optional, creating an even bigger problem. It is a bit sad that public licenses aren't designed to make very long term collaboration all that easy and be in full technical compliance. That's not even counting attribution, which is surely problematic for this site if you want to dig; can't even rely on version control history as moving across sites, CMS, and now here, history has been lost. You can see why to be rigorous, one has to keep copyright/license/credit statements on a per-file basis, in the file itself, like many software projects do. Or get everyone to agree to 0 from the beginning, or at least going forward. :)