Hi, On 11/17/10 04:26, Anthony wrote:
They left what process? The goal of the process was not to find a license like the ODbL. The goal of the process was to address the sui generis database right within the CC framework.
This is not a contradiction. The ODbL could well have been "the way to address data in the CC framework". I'd avoid talking specifically of the "sui generis database right" because that was clearly not an issue in the beginning; the issue they tried to solve was that "no one understood the legal aspects of data very clearly, no one could figure out an algorithm for when copyright applied and when it didn't, and everyone wanted a solution."
I'm not a CC insider; I have my knowledge mainly from stuff that John Wilbanks has published. The above quote is from http://blogs.nature.com/wilbanks/2007/12/ which tells a story that starts in October 2006.
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