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Best practices language for making open government data "license-free".
https://theunitedstates.io/licensing/
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Add a TLDR;-style short version to the top of the document #28

Closed konklone closed 10 years ago

konklone commented 10 years ago

I think the document could get to the point about "Just use CC0" sooner, or make it louder for those landing on the site and just wanting to get het gist.

Instead of adjusting the language, how about a brief TLDR;-style header at the top, maybe:

The short version: All US government data should be part of the international public domain, no matter how it's created. Use a dedication like CC0 to accomplish this.

Assuming I've summed it up correctly, I don't think this would be a substantive change that would merit getting re-signoff from all the signers.

JoshData commented 10 years ago

I think a little less normative would be fine.

To the greatest extent possible U.S. public government data should be “license-free”. Here's how to use the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication to make data license-free.

konklone commented 10 years ago

:+1: Yeah, I like that. I'll give a day or two for others to ring in.

tvol commented 10 years ago

:+1: