Intel Place Lab (not Parc Place...)
http://placelab.org/
// asc
Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
I'd be happy to help with that one; seems pretty straightforward.
Personally I don't really care re GPL/CC or not; people are going to
do whatever they want anyway and power is only as strong as
enforcement. All you do is force people out of the sunlight when you
try to constrain their use.
Correct.
I'm just a guy. However if cddb, and before that a certain mailing
list, tell me anything, it's that someone else asserting compilation
copyright on data I provided in a way that precludes me from using
it, is unpalatable. As long as there's a license that precludes
someone from taking the provided data private and making a profit, good.
I'm not opposed to profit, but if you want my data, pay me or keep
giving me stuff for free, (if) I gave you stuff for free.
Agreed, and that's been one of the points I wanted to make -- to
get people to visit, and interest them enough to go out and wardrive
(contests, etc).
I know if I just published this stuff as public domain, certain
unnamed groups would copy it, and call the database their own. This
wouldn't be the first time, and that's why I want to put some
protections (for the project) into the license. I'd like to make sure
that we're cited -- at the minimum -- as a data source, and probably
free for noncommercial use. There is a commercial-use/subscription
option in here somewhere. This is why the CC licenses appeal to me.
I do tend to support BSD licensing because I don't begrudge others
making money off of my work, and the quality of participants where
participants can freely monetize work is higher. If you think of
source code (or datasets) as a liability that must be maintained,
rather than an asset, then you will want the most liberal license
possible to push those liabilities away from oneself. If you want to
treat the work as an asset, then don't make it free at all.
Hm, I don't see our dataset as a liability. It is definately an
asset. It does not, however, have any value sitting on a disk array at
my house -- it has far more value in being plotted, analyzed,
spindled, etc by third parties. Mashups, research, curious folks.
This is why I pipe up, and ask the experts. This is a bit out of
my expertise. Am I making any sense?
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