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x/pkgsite: please add ODbL license to list of approved licenses #59992

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ydnar opened this issue May 4, 2023 · 2 comments
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x/pkgsite: please add ODbL license to list of approved licenses #59992

ydnar opened this issue May 4, 2023 · 2 comments
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pkgsite/license Issues related to licenses on pkg.go.dev. See our license policy https://pkg.go.dev/license-policy pkgsite
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ydnar commented May 4, 2023

Hi, I’m the author of the ZoneDB package (https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/zonedb/zonedb). I visited the GoDoc page for the package today and discovered that the documentation was suppressed because the license we specify in LICENSE.md is not accepted.

This is a request to add the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) to the list of approved licenses.

We could split the license into a separate license for the code and one for the underlying data (zones.txt and metadata JSON files), but it seems inconsistent as the Go package is derived from the base data.

Thanks!

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/zonedb/zonedb

No documentation due to policy: https://pkg.go.dev/license-policy

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Safari

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Screenshot 2023-05-04 at 3 13 46 PM

What did you do?

Visit the GoDoc page for the zonedb package at: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/zonedb/zonedb

What did you expect to see?

GoDoc documentation for ZoneDB.

What did you see instead?

Screenshot 2023-05-04 at 3 13 46 PM
@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Unreleased milestone May 4, 2023
@seankhliao seankhliao added the pkgsite/license Issues related to licenses on pkg.go.dev. See our license policy https://pkg.go.dev/license-policy label May 4, 2023
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Our license policy was recently clarified: we can only accept OSI approved licenses. As the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) is not on the list, this won't be possible.

@seankhliao seankhliao closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale May 4, 2023
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ydnar commented May 4, 2023

Looks like the last time OSI contemplated this was 12 years ago:

https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2011-June/001280.html

Mike,

> I have some questions about the ODBL
> http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

To date, OSI has not reviewed or certified any oben content licenses,  
which are necessarily different in structure from open source  
licenses.  This has been discussed, but currently is not a practice of  
OSI.

I've been thinking of setting up a new working group on open content,  
but that would put us at least a year away from certifying anyone.

--Josh Berkus

I went ahead and dual-licensed it (code under MIT, database under ODbL). Not ideal, but I’d prefer to not have to split the repo.

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