On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM, William Waites <william.wai...@okfn.org> wrote: > On 10-09-05 16:00, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> >> As I said, the first line on the CKAN home page says: "CKAN is a >> registry of open data and content packages.". Therefore I think there >> is a reasonable expectation that the packages registered there are >> open. > > Actually, it is my understanding that CKAN is an > *open registry* and includes packages that are > partially open, unclearly licensed or even that > someone thinks should be open but at present are > not. > > I agree that the text is misleading and should > probably be fixed. I'm crossposting to ckan-discuss, > and if nobody objects I'll change it to "CKAN is > an open registry of data and content packages"
That would certainly be clearer. > It seems to me the case that packages in the curated > LOD group should all be themselves open, by > definition. That would be my impression as well. Though the presence of bio2rdf-cas raises questions. Best, Alan > > Cheers, > -w > -- > William Waites <william.wai...@okfn.org> > Mob: +44 789 798 9965 Open Knowledge Foundation > Fax: +44 131 464 4948 Edinburgh, UK > > RDF Indexing, Clustering and Inferencing in Python > http://ordf.org/ >