Open Data Commons

A proposed Open Data License.

URL = http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-database-licence/

Introduction

From [1]:

"The Open Data Commons is a licence agreement intended to allow you to freely share, modify, and use this database while maintaining this same freedom for others. Many databases are covered by copyright, and therefore this document licenses these rights. Some jurisdictions, mainly in Europe, have specific rights that cover databases, and so the Open Data Commons addresses these rights too. Finally for circumstances and territories in which copyright and database rights do not apply, the Open Data Commons is also an agreement in contract for you to act in certain ways in return for accessing this database.

Because databases can have a wide variety of types of contents, this document only governs the rights over the database, and not the contents of the database individually. You should use the Open Data Commons together with another licence for the contents, if the contents have a single set of rights that governs all of them. If the contents have multiple sets of different rights, you should describe what rights govern what contents together in the individual record.

Sometimes the contents of a database, or the database itself, can be covered by other rights not addressed here, and so you advised that you may have to consult other documents or clear other rights before doing activities not covered by this licence." (http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-database-licence/)

More Information

1. Open Data Home, "collection of pages and links about the Open Data Commons draft licence. There are two principal licences, the database licence and the factual information licence. Both are collected here."
2. Open Data Factual Info License, "intended to be applied only to factual information. It is in the same style as the BSD or MIT licences"
3. Open Data blog, for updates

See also:

1. Open Data
2. Open Hardware Licenses