www/licenses license-list.html

[Joshua Gay]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Joshua Gay <josh>       12/12/31 19:59:05

Modified files:
        licenses       : license-list.html 

Log message:
        updating Open Database License with text recommended by RMS

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/license-list.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.369&r2=1.370

Patches:
Index: license-list.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/license-list.html,v
retrieving revision 1.369
retrieving revision 1.370
diff -u -b -r1.369 -r1.370
--- license-list.html   20 Dec 2012 03:58:23 -0000      1.369
+++ license-list.html   31 Dec 2012 19:59:05 -0000      1.370
@@ -2089,8 +2089,14 @@
     Open Database license</a>
     <span class="anchor-reference-id">
        (<a href="#ODbl">#ODbl</a>)</span></dt>
-<dd><p>This is a free and copyleft license meant for databases. It is
-incompatible with the GNU GPL.</p></dd>
+
+<dd><p>This is a free and copyleft license meant for data.  It is
+incompatible with the GNU GPL. Please don't use it for software or
+documentation, since it is incompatible with the GNU GPL and with the
+GNU FDL. It makes inconvenient requirements about signing contracts
+which try to create an effect like copyleft for data that is not
+copyrightable, so we don't recommend using it; however, there is no
+reason to avoid using data released this way.</p></dd>
 
 </dl>
 
@@ -2222,7 +2228,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/12/20 03:58:23 $
+$Date: 2012/12/31 19:59:05 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>