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value of share-alike or copyleft provisions of GPL and similar licenses

spreading the message and use of Open Content

prevent “freeloaders” from being able to use Open material and not contribute back to the open community

presumption in this view is that a license is a good, or at least acceptable, way of achieving both these goals

allow people the freedom to address their concerns through copyleft approaches

Rufus

concerned more centrally with enabling re-use and re-purposing of data as far as is possible

make it easy for researchers to deliver on their obligations

worried by the potential for licensing to make it harder to re-use and re-mix disparate sets of data and content into new digital objects

“license”, will have scientists running screaming in the opposite direction

we focused on what we could agree on

common position statement

area of best practice for the publication of data that arises from public science

there is a window of opportunity to influence funder positions

data sharing policies

“following best practice”

don’t tend to be concerned about freeloading

providing clear guidance and tools

if it is widely accepted by their research communities

“best practice is X”

enable re-use and re-purposing of that data

share-alike approaches as a community expectation

Explicit statements of the status of data are required and we need effective technical and legal infrastructure to make this easy for researchers.

“Where a decision has been taken to publish data deriving from public science research, best practice to enable the re-use and re-purposing of that data, is to place it explicitly in the public domain via {one of a small set of protocols e.g. cc0 or PDDL}.”

focuses purely on what should be done once a decision to publish has been made

data generated by public science

describing this as best practice it also allows deviations that may, for whatever reason, be justified by specific people in specific circumstances