qcif / data-curator

Data Curator - share usable open data
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Add new License type #800

Open 4estone opened 6 years ago

4estone commented 6 years ago

Desired Behaviour (for feature requests only)

Add new License : Open License 2.0 (France) This the french Open Data Government License

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2017/4/27/2017-638/jo/texte

Stephen-Gates commented 6 years ago

@4estone do you know if Open License 2.0 (France) is conformant with the Open Definition as it’s not listed on https://opendefinition.org/licenses/? We only support Open Definition conformant licenses.

Conformant Licenses - Open Definition - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge
Conformant Licenses - Open Definition - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge
4estone commented 6 years ago

As you can see here : https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Open_Licence.pdf

To facilitate the re-use of the « Information », this licence has been designed to be compatible with any licence which requires at least the attribution of the « Information ». For instance, it is compatible with the « Open Government Licence » (OGL) of the United Kingdom, the « Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 » (CC-BY 2.0) licence of Creative Commons and the « Open Data Commons Attribution » (ODC-BY) licence of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Stephen-Gates commented 6 years ago

That should make it easy to go through the Open Definition approval process.

Stephen-Gates commented 6 years ago

As an alternative you could edit the datapackage.json to change the license. This article may help.