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Re:Open Source Datasets by vog on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:00AM (#14568163)
> Creative Commons seems like a good license for this though

I don't think that CC licenses are a good fit for data collections in general. Let's see what other open data projects do:

Some open data projects were not satisfied with CC licenses, which is why ODbL was created:

https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

Also, many open data projects choose to put their stuff into the public domain (or license it as "CC0" which means exactly the same). This is, for example, what Wikidata does:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

(Wikidata the structured sister project of Wikipedia.)

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Re:Open Source Datasets by zitterbewegung on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:18AM (#14569184)
I agree that CC licenses aren't a good fit for data collections. I have been meaning to create a new license but I don't have the expertise or credibility to reasonably market it. ODbL seems really close to what I was envisioning. Thanks!
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