Just spotted this:

  http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123

In particular:

> In the past, some people unaffiliated with opencontent.org have taken it upon 
> themselves to “define the open in open content” and propose artificial 
> definitions like those described above. The Open Knowledge Definition is one 
> such attempt, which is an adaptation of the Open Source Definition, which is 
> itself an adaptation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Wonder if it would be worth responding in a blog post - in particular
explaining why OKD exists and what its for?

David has always been pro-NC licenses, which is what I suspect this is
partly about (NC stuff being 'open'). On an unrelated note he's also
involved in Flat World Knowledge - and I think their business model
uses NC licenses.

  http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/our-team

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org

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