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Linux Foundation Wants to Do to Data What It's Done for Software

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 24 2017, @09:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-license-to-rule-them-all dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The Linux Foundation has created one open-data licence framework to rule them all, allowing users to collaborate on data-driven projects.

Today at the Open Source Summit in Prague, executive director Jim Zemlin announced the Community Data License Agreement, which is designed for non-proprietary data.

The org says data producers can now share the goods "with greater clarity about what recipients may do with it".

One branch "puts terms in place to ensure that downstream recipients can use and modify that data, and are also required to share their changes", while the other does not oblige users to share those changes.

The idea is to accelerate machine learning in open source.

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  • (Score: 2) by Rich on Tuesday October 24 2017, @02:55PM

    by Rich (945) on Tuesday October 24 2017, @02:55PM (#586886) Journal

    It makes sense to help lubricate the wheels of the ecosystem(s) that produce, consume, use and manipulate that data.

    I fail a bit to see why this would be helpful to Linux as such. It's not like that people would suddenly start using Windows for such tasks; as of June, 99.6% of the Top 500 supercomputers were running Linux. And there are always layers of software in between the kernel and the data processing.

    What I might understand is that these folks are looking at the current developments (Alexa et al. as you said) and think "me too!". But I doubt that the free ecosystem is able to compete with these expensive-to-curate things that are in the end paid for with loss of one's privacy and the free market.

    And sorry for being so repeatingly nagging about the graphics issue, but again, the biggest threat to Linux' market share is Google moving to their own OS for Android. Had they nailed down that stuff firmly within their inner ecosystem, it'd be a much more powerful lock in (or more kindly put, incentive to stay with the platform...). Even more so, for other "customers", if Google decides to go BSD with their stuff.

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