Short talk on licensing issues & licence compatibility from Open Data Bristol meetup.

1. Oil and Water:
When Data Licences Don't Mix
Leigh Dodds
@ldodds
Bristol Open Data meetup, January 2014

2. IANAL

3. DATA LICENSING
Where Are We?

4. State of Open Data Licensing
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Clear data licensing is (increasingly) common
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Choosing a licence is easy
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Plenty of guidance available
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Licence proliferation is becoming a problem
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Vanity licences

5. LICENCE COMPATIBILITY

6. When Is Compatibility Important?
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If I improve a dataset, then what licence can I
apply to my new version?
What happens when datasets are mixed
together?
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Can we comply with all the licences?
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What licence can I use on the combined dataset?

7. DESCRIBING
LICENCES

8. Attribution

9. Non-Commercial

10. Share A Like

11. No Derivatives

12. LICENCE COMPATIBILITY
(for derived works)

13. A Single Dataset, Remixed

14. No Derivatives, No New Dataset
No Derivatives?
No Dataset!
(but you could just share your additions, or a means to
create them)

15. Share-a-Like? Then Limits On
Licensing
Share-A-Like?
Must Use
Same Licence

16. Multiple Datasets, Remixed

17. No Derivatives, No Dataset
No Derivatives
No Dataset!

18. Share-A-Likes Don't Mix
Share-A-Like
Non-Commercial
Share-A-Like
No Dataset!

19. Least Open Wins
More Open
Less Open
Limited to Least
Open Licence

20. LICENCE
RECOMMENDATIONS

21. CC BY 4.0
(for content AND data; compatible with UK-OGLv2)

22. CC0
(public domain, ftw!)

23. Further Reading
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Publishers Guide to Open Data Licensing
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Reusers Guide to Open Data Licensing
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http://bit.ly/lic-compat
Licence Proliferation
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http://theodi.org/guides/reusers-guide-open-data-licensing
Licence Compatibility
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http://theodi.org/guides/publishers-guide-open-data-licensing
http://bit.ly/lic-prolif
CC 4.0 and Open Data
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http://theodi.org/blog/cc-40-and-open-data

24. Image Attribution
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Oil Abstract, Alternate – Tim Sackton
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Creative Commons Icons
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http://thenounproject.com/term/lawyer/10320/
Database – Shmidt Sergey
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http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
Lawyer – Miroslav KURDOV
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sackton/7941527304
http://thenounproject.com/term/database/9658/
Turntable – Renaud Mignerey
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http://thenounproject.com/term/turntable/11623/