The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) provides an answer to the question: what is open knowledge? It puts forward, in a simple and clear manner, principles that define open knowledge and which open knowledge licenses should satisfy.

After various improvements and lots of feedback over the last year to the initial draft, version 1.0 of the open knowledge definition is at last officially out along with a new dedicated subdomain at http://okd.okfn.org/. No doubt there are plenty of improvements still to be made so please get involved. In particular there’s an editable development version of the definition along with the beginnings of a list of ‘conformant’ licenses.

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1. Open Knowledge Definition Released Following extensive discussion of the first draft we are pleased to announce the public release of the Open Knowledge Definition. A space has also been created on wiki for the Definition which anyone may edit and improve....
2. KForge 0.10 Released The KForge/KnowledgeForge project is one the OKF’s core activities at present. The KForge software (now with its own site!) has been usable for about six months and stable enough for production use on http://www.knowledgeforge.net/ since the 0.9 release back in...
3. Open Knowledge Foundation Annual Report Released. Today the Foundation released its first annual report. Rufus Pollock, Director of the Foundation said: I’m very proud of the progress we’ve made in such a short time. This is an very dynamic area and just in the last year...