go adopt yerself a public domain waiver... be an early geog. data and tools adopter now, willya.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thinh Nguyen <th...@creativecommons.org> Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM Subject: CC0 Private Announcement .. Dear Friends of Science Commons: I'm delighted to let you know that CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0) has been completed and is ready for implementation. We are making this private announcement at this time only to our collaborators and potential early adopters, to give them time to evaluate the tool and to implement it. As you know, the concept for CC0 arose from our meeting in October 2007 at the Sorbonne in Paris. As a participant in that conference, your ideas and suggestions played a key and vital role in shaping our thinking about how to share data and databases, which ultimately lead to the development of CC0. I hope that you can be proud of the ultimate result. CC0 is only the first installment of a two-part plan. With CC0, we intend to provide a simple, easy-to-use tool that data providers can use to waive or "quitclaim" any rights that they may have in data, including copyright and database rights. As a follow-up to CC0, we are working on an assertion tool that can be used to mark data that's already in the public domain, but this is a more complicated task, so we are releasing CC0--the waiver component--first. I hope that you will take some time to look at CC0 by following the link above. We invite your feedback, and if you know of anyone who might be interested in CC0 or who might want to be an early adopter, please feel free to let them know that CC0 is available or put them in touch with us. Once again, thank you for your contribution to the success of this effort. We look forward to your continued involvement and participation as we roll out this project. Best Regards, Thinh Nguyen Counsel, Science Commons -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss