Open Data Commons - Licence now out

[MJ Ray]

One problem caused by Europe for free software is database licensing,
which isn't quite the same as copyright over databases.  Someone has
published a first draft of an open data licence to try to cover this.
Is this useful for free software or not?

Introduction: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/2007/09/24/open-data-commons-licence-now-out/
Draft: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-database-licence/
Discussion list: http://lists.opencontentlawyer.com/listinfo.cgi/tcl-discuss-opencontentlawyer.com

I'm slightly concerned about the triple-whammy of database licensing,
copyright licensing and a contract.  I'm very happy to see the
confusing CC-style anti-TPM wording made irrelevant by permitting
parallel distribution.

There's also an Open Data Factual Info Licence which puzzles me a bit
because *information* is not covered by copyright, only the expression
(the licence also seems to state this in point 2.4), so it seems a bit
unnecessary.

Please comment on the owner's site and/or here.  I'll try to link the
two in a few minutes.

Thanks in advance,
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