Chris, and the geodata list,
Your comments are valid.
Does OSGeo have an official stance on data licencing? If not, I think we
should.
Currently, the Australian government is moving licencing the majority of
their data (including geospatial) under Creative Commons.
The responses I've heard from Australian government about Zero Commons
is that the license is still in draft, and that a government will need
the license to move out of draft before a government can recommend
government agencies use it.
I assume this is the license being referred:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCZero
Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:21:03PM +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
Cameron Shorter wrote:
If we find a data custodian who is keen to get their data into the
Integration Showcase, what sort of criteria should we be specifying for
that dataset?
What license?
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
Same as OpenStreetMap
Please do not encourage new data releasers to release geodata under
creative commons licenses. It has ben a source of major disagreements
with regard to openstreetmap, and I don't think it's any better for
anyone else.
Geodata is not creative. Creative Commons licenses are written for
creative works. Even the Creative Commons people I've talked to don't
think geodata should be covered under anything other than 'CC Zero'.
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=262 sums this up quite well: if you
haven't read it, *Please do* before advising anyone who has not already
released data on license issues.
Regards,
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