Open definition

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The open-definition (in the English original The Open Definition ) is one of the Open Knowledge Foundation , published text of openness with respect to data defined and other content. It contains a proposal as to which specifications licenses may make in order to be considered free licenses . The definition used therein was derived from the open source definition .

Standard text

The Open Knowledge Foundation summarizes the document as follows:

"Knowledge is open when everyone can freely access, use, change and share it - limited at most by measures that preserve the origin and openness of knowledge."

history

The first draft of the Open Definition, v0.1, was circulated in August 2005. Version 1.0 was published in July 2006, version 2.0 in October 2014. The current version of the text was published in November 2015 as version 2.1.

Linguistically, the text complies with the RFC 2119 standard . It is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license , which itself meets the open definition.

See also

• Definition of free cultural works
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge
• Budapest Open Access Initiative

Web links

• Website
• Why the Open Definition Matters for Open Data , blog post by Rufus Pollock, founder and president of the Open Knowledge Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Open Definition Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge . Open Knowledge Foundation . Retrieved January 22, 2017.
2. ↑ Open Definition 2.1 . Open Knowledge Foundation . Retrieved January 22, 2017.
3. ↑ Open Knowledge Open Definition Group: Offen-Definition - Open Definition - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge. Retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ History - Open Definition . Open Knowledge Foundation . Retrieved January 22, 2017.