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Sharing, preservation and licensing: Open data commons

Open Data Commons (ODC) have prepared a set of licences (see below) suitable for data that are conformant with the principles set forth in the Open Knowledge Definition. Each licence is accompanied by a statement which can be placed with your data on on a webpage that points to your data.

These licences tend to mention 'Databases' rather than 'Data' however they are entirely suited to 'data' ('Database' rather than 'Data' is the preferred term used by lawyers to describe a collection of information).

  • BY = requires attribution
  • SA = require share-alike

Conformant Data Licenses

License Domain BY SA Comments
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) Data N N Dedicate to the Public Domain (all rights waived)
Open Data Commons Attribution License Data Y N Attribution for data(bases)
Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) Data Y Y Attribution-ShareAlike for data(bases)
Creative Commons CCZero Content, Data N N Dedicate to the Public Domain (all rights waived)
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Creative Commons Licence
PILOT - Writing a data management plan by Edina, University of Edinburgh modified by Marion Kelt, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/introduction.html