[Taxacom] Your input, please, on attribution, rights and licensing of names and compilations of names

[Shorthouse, David]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Stephen Thorpe
<stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> Well now! I guess given the number of greedy and territorial people out there, some of whom are taxonomists, this audacious attempt to take data out of the public domain was bound to raise its ugly head at some stage!

Who/what is the "this" to which you refer above? The point of the
workshop I gather is to do some educating and to nut out the issue.

As constructive contribution to the dialogue, my predecessor wrote a
summary of various flavours of CC licenses that will be of assistance:
http://www.canadensys.net/2012/why-we-should-publish-our-data-under-cc0

Cheers,

David