Emphasize license-free when discussing license examples #257
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…fference between licenses and public domain dedications, and link to best practices and guidance from civil society.
Also moving the PDDL up from a data license to a public domain dedication.
tweak the license-free revision
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@konklone means (D)HHS, not DHS. :) |
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Thanks, updated the text of the PR. |
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👍 This needs to happen. |
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Can you provide/point to some 1:1 suggestions of proprietary vs. open >formats<? Also, great summary of legal language and contract guidance on open licenses. thanks! |
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That's a very helpful discussion to have (and @philipashlock has done a lot of research on this exact issue), though probably off-topic for this particular thread. Maybe @philipashlock should start a discussion somewhere about it and CC us. 😄 |
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+1 |
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Thanks for these suggestions! I wanted to flag the recent licensing guidance updates, created with #454 + #456. As part of these updates, the /license-examples information was added (and redirected) to the /open-licenses page. Please reopen a new PR if any of your concerns were not addressed with those updates. Note: #257 and #196 remain open. |
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I think this definitely covers the spirit and content of our PR, and it looks like @JoshData agreed in #456 (comment). Thank you, @rebeccawilliams @philipashlock @jlberryhill! |
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Hi all -- flagging this issue for @corizarek |
This pull request by @JoshData and I updates the license examples page to explicitly recommend making an agency's data free of licensing, through a worldwide public domain dedication.
This isn't a very radical suggestion - CC0 and the PDDL are already listed on the license examples page. However, CC0 and PDDL are not licenses, but an explicit avoidance of licensing, so I've also updated the list to reflect that, and move CC0 and PDDL to their own section. HHS and the CFPB have both already made some of their work license-free via CC0.
This PR includes a link to the government data licensing guidance that a large number of non-governmental public interest groups signed on to in December. Some of the real world HHS and CFPB examples are referenced there, along with this project itself.