Open Data Commons

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 databases which includes explicit attribution and share-alike requirements. This license, the first of its kind, is a major step forward for open data. There are currently very [...]

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 Candidate. The two main alterations are: Removal of section 4.7 related to reverse engineering. This may be reintroduced in later versions but has been left out here in order to [...]