On 16/12/12 at 12:52 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:45:21AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > It is now listed at > > > http://datahub.io/dataset/debian-package-tracking-system - but > > > annoyingly it is marked as " License Not Specified". > > > > Perhaps the question to ask is more who can decide on a license - the > > project or those harvesting (i.e. the person(s) writing the actual > > script)? > > The copyright owner for a collection is its "editor", i.e. the persons > who decide what is part of the collection and what is not --- allegedly, > that's where the creativeness resides. In this case, it seems fairly > clear that the authors of the UDD importers are entitled to decide, > collectively, a license. More precisely, it should be the code > contributors who influenced the choices of what is part of UDD as of > now, and what is not (e.g. code refactoring or, say, a better algorithm > for an important shouldn't matter). Off the top of my memory that > should then be Lucas, Christian, Andreas, possibly myself, and surely > svn log will tell you more :-) > > Those who are on this list can please comment on adopting ODBL? > FWIW, I agree with that choice. Me too. Lucas
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