ISSUE-61: dct:license vs. dct:rights

licenseOrRights

dct:license vs. dct:rights

State:

CLOSED

Product:

DCAT

Raised by:

Richard Cyganiak

Opened on:

2013-04-12

Description:

Last Call comment from Jeni Tennison:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gld-comments/2013Apr/0001.html

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In Europe, data publishers have both copyright and database rights over the data that they publish, and may have to reference more than one licence as a result. In addition, there is often extra information that supplements the licence to enable reusers to fulfil it, such as the attribution that they have to provide when they reuse. Having a single link to a licence and not having a mechanism to give this supplementary information might be too simplistic.

So, I wonder whether it would be better to incorporate dct:rights than dct:license, and link to a rights statement that would include licensing and attribution information both for the copyright and for the database right if there is one.

I note that in CKAN the link to the licence uses the relation dct:rights. The only things related to licensing in data.gov are around attribution (I believe this is because all US government data is public domain).
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1. Re: ISSUE-61 (licenseOrRights): dct:license vs. dct:rights [DCAT] (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2013-04-12)
2. ISSUE-61 (licenseOrRights): dct:license vs. dct:rights [DCAT] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-04-12)

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