The world's largest directory of sites Open Directory Project (dmoz) moved to Creative Commons Attribution
On June 22, at 4 o'clock in the morning, dmoze.ru has information that the legendary project Open Directory Project or dmoz now has a new license - Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported . And so it turned out - on the page dmoz.org/license.html indicated CC-BY . But! There are no more news on any site on the Internet for which Google searches. Probably everyone is sleeping. And this is not the old news - the old license is in the Yandex cache .
The Open Directory Project is owned by AOL and is supported by a community of voluntary editors.
The Open Directory Project was founded by Richard Skrent and Bob Truel . Its launch took place on June 5, 1998. After the announcement of the purchase of the Catalog by Netscape on November 17 (the purchase itself was made back in October) in 1998 for $ 40,050,000, it was renamed and acquired its current name.
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Now in the catalog there are 4 897 671 sites, 91 874 editors, 1 007 233 categories. The section for sites in Russian takes the 9th place among the largest language sections in the Catalog.
One of the famous projects based on dmoz is Google Directory .
Previously, the Open Directory Project was distributed under the Open Directory License ( text ), which the Free Software Foundation considers to be a non-free license.
Part of the text - wats from Wikipedia
This text is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License .
You may copy, edit and use this text for commercial purposes with the obligatory indication of authorship.
The Open Directory Project is owned by AOL and is supported by a community of voluntary editors.
The Open Directory Project was founded by Richard Skrent and Bob Truel . Its launch took place on June 5, 1998. After the announcement of the purchase of the Catalog by Netscape on November 17 (the purchase itself was made back in October) in 1998 for $ 40,050,000, it was renamed and acquired its current name.
')
Now in the catalog there are 4 897 671 sites, 91 874 editors, 1 007 233 categories. The section for sites in Russian takes the 9th place among the largest language sections in the Catalog.
One of the famous projects based on dmoz is Google Directory .
Previously, the Open Directory Project was distributed under the Open Directory License ( text ), which the Free Software Foundation considers to be a non-free license.
Part of the text - wats from Wikipedia
This text is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License .
You may copy, edit and use this text for commercial purposes with the obligatory indication of authorship.
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