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Rich Sands – Product Manager @ Ohloh.net

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Open Definition

A piece of content or data is open if anyone

is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it –

subject to only, at most, the requirement to

attribute and/or share-alike.

Sounds good?

A piece of is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it – subject to only, at most, the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

Content

Data

A of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it – subject to only, at most, the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

[T]he first person to find and report a particular fact has not created the fact; he or she has merely discovered its existence. . . . Census-takers, for example, do not “create” the population figures that emerge from their efforts; in a sense, they copy these figures from the world around them. . . . Census data therefore do not trigger copyright because these data are not “original” in the constitutional sense.

-Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,Feist Publications, Inc.v. Rural Telephone Service

© licenses don’t work.

Europe disagrees.

A piece of content or data is open if

, reuse, and redistribute it – subject to only, at most, the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

A piece of content or data is open if anyone

is free to use, , and redistribute it – subject to only, at most, the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

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A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and

it – subject to only, at most, the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

Crowdsource

Crowdsource

Grow

Adoption

Grow

Adoption

Original: I need yellow & blue.I will contributethere.

Original:

But I needyellow & blue.

Not

Hypothetical

Code Forks Can Be Evaluated

Data Forks, Often Not So Easy

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A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it –

subject to , the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

Nice data you got.I’ll just use it.Thanks!

This is a pain.

Our Data is Open, But Thou Shalt Not

Use Our API To:

Do bad stuff with the data

Violate people’s privacy

Use without attribution

Modify without giving back

Fragment the data by copying the DB

Make $ without our permission

Do other stuff with the data we don’t like

Thanks for asking, but no data dumpis available. Sorry!

How can we open data,

but avoid the pitfalls?

Contact Info

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