Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Open Data licensing?

2013-02-02 Thread Joshua Gay
Creating a good license for data can be challenging because very often such data is not subject to copyright. The ODBL makes inconvenient requirements about signing contracts which try to create an effect like copyleft for data that is not copyrightable, so we don't recommend using it; however, the

[libreplanet-discuss] [OT] php::print::ipp library, calling for a new maintainer

2013-02-02 Thread Thomas Harding
Hello, I'm the author of a little PHP library named php::print:ipp, which purpose is to implement an IPP1.1 protocol print client. My primary work is sysadmin, so it is very badly written, but works good enough. Also, code is not well documented. I authored that library aroud year 2003, wh

[libreplanet-discuss] Open Data licensing?

2013-02-02 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
Hi I see with increasing frequency municipal governements pulishing their data under "open data" licenses, most often new licenses instead of existing recognized licenses. One recommendation that comes up is pointing them to http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/ and recommending they choose one li