Legal openness as well as transparency/accessibility?
Jonathan Gray
Just to say I've blogged and commented basically saying that the
declaration should explicitly mention making material open (as in
opendefinition.org) - so its clear we're asking for more than
transparency/accessibility. What matters is that citizens are legally
allowed to build on public information, to "access, understand, reuse,
and remix" it, whether in creating new innovative web services, or
integrating with existing sites/services.
http://eups20.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/reusing-remixing-and-building-on-the-importance-of-making-data-legally-open/
http://eups20.wordpress.com/draft-declaration/#comment-176
Hence I wonder whether we could amend the declaration to explicitly
state that material should be open in the sense that it can legally be
re-used by anyone for any purpose?
Best wishes,
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Jonathan Gray
Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org