Open Definition

= synomymous with the Open Knowledge Definition: The Open Knowledge Definition is based on the OSI Open Source Software Definition No restrictions on field of endeavour - non-commercial-use licenses are not open as in the OKD.

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• The Open Data Commons is run by Jordan Hatcher, who started work on the Open Database License with support from Talis, later extensive negotiation with the OpenStreetmap community. ODbL is a ShareAlike license for data, that obviates the problems of inapplicability of copyright to facts.

• Open Data Grid: a project in early incubation; based on the Tahoe distributed filesystem. It’s in need of development effort on Tahoe to really get going. Provide secure storage for open datasets around the edges of infrastructure that people are already running.