Just over a year ago Open Data Commons was launched as a home for the new open data licenses such as the PDDL which had been developed by Jordan Hatcher and Dr Charlotte Waelde.

From early on, Jordan, the legal expert and aficianado-of-openness and the main mover behind these efforts, had been talking with us about finding a more permanent home for ODC. After further discussions over the last few months, we are pleased to announce that Open Data Commons has now found a new home here at the OKF.

One immediate result of this is that there is now a new mailing list for discussion of the ODC licenses (and any related open data issues) here:

http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/odc-discuss

Please come along and join in!

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