Attribution is arguably a pain in the butt, often not honored, and can lead to a tangle of license chains as the work gets continually re-used and re-mixed.

For the most part, most people don't really care about the content/data they put on the Internet as they just assume they will lose control and ownership over it either to the company they are giving their data to, or other people (the rest of the Internet) who don't care about proper attribution and licensing.

We have not started collecting data yet and have the chance now to choose an even more free/open license: CC0 (Public Domain, as free as it gets) rather than the original license I chose: CC-BY 4.0 (requires attribution).

More info on CC0: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
and CC-BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Andru and I were talking and realized that keeping the attribution license (CC-BY) would actually be very annoying for even us at OpenFarm in this case: If we allow users to "fork" or "clone" Guides and then modify/remix them, then the new Guide would have to attribute the original Guide's author somewhere. You can see how this can get messy with the license chaining if a lot of mash ups happen, especially from multiple source Guides as talked about on GitHub once: https://github.com/FarmBot/OpenFarm/issues/123

I propose we change the OpenFarm data license to the free-est it can be: CC0 - Public Domain.