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Open Data Commons – Attribution License released 25 Jun 2010 | 08:55 am
Thanks to everyone for their feedback on the licenses and their help with the project. We can now announce a new license to the Open Data Commons family, the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY) license. ...
ODC-BY new draft available for comment 2 Jun 2010 | 07:18 am
We’re going to have a short comment period on the latest version of the ODC-BY license, which has a few changes based on some feedback we received and added text that was discussed as part of the Open...
Draft of an Open Data Commons Attribution License 12 Jan 2010 | 11:08 am
Open Data Commons are happy to announce the first draft of an attribution license for data/databases: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/ A commentable version of the text is available here:...
Jordan speaking at ISWC on open data 14 Oct 2009 | 08:12 am
Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web Open Data Commons co-founder and co-author of the PDDL and ODbL, Jordan Hatcher, will be speaking at the International Semantic Web Conference ...
ODbL summary now up 13 Sep 2009 | 09:17 am
Matt Amos from the Open Street Map License Working Group has very kindly created a plain language summary of the Open Database License. This summary gives a clear but simple guide to how the database...
Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 Released 29 Jun 2009 | 11:06 pm
We are delighted to announce the release of v1.0 of the Open Database License (ODbL): http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ The Open Database License (ODbL) is an open license for data and d...
Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available 16 Jun 2009 | 03:21 am
The Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 “Release Candidate 2″ is now available at: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ As expected there haven’t been many changes from the first Release Cand...
Making Your Data Open: A Guide 18 May 2009 | 10:28 pm
We’ve started work on an ultra simple guide to assist people who want to make their data open: http://www.opendatacommons.org/guide/ We’ve been asked a lot recently for a simple HOWTO and this guide...
Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 Release Candidate Available 30 Apr 2009 | 10:28 am
The Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 “Release Candidate” is now available at: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ This updated version of the license incorporates a whole set of changes a...
Open Database License Draft Available for Comments 28 Feb 2009 | 08:08 am
After more than a year of drafting and consultation with interested communities, especially Open Street Map, the current (beta) draft of the Open Database License (ODbL) was released for public commen...
