Here is an interview with Jordan S. Hatcher on “Why we can’t use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software.”
The mission of Open Data Commons is to provide legal tools for open data, and we’ve produced two legal tools to date. We’re looking to expand our work to do more education and research around open data, as well as to build out a robust framework for the organisation and updating and maintaining the licenses. We’re very excited that the Open Street Map community is looking to adopt the Open Database License for their materials.