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Open Definition

Open Knowledge Foundation's definition of 'open' for content and data: anyone can freely access, use, modify and share it, subject at most to requirements that preserve provenance and openness. First drafted in 2005.

Read the specification opendefinition.org

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  • start: v0.2 was posted publicly in October 2005 after an August 2005 draft; v1.0 came later

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