I don't know of any good summaries, but there has been considerable discussion within the OpenStreetMap 'community' regarding licensing for spatial data. OSM data was originally published under a CC-By license, but based on the decision of the OSM Foundation, it has adopted a new license under ODBL.
From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of mrunmayee sahoo Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:26 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Talk on Copyright and Licensing for Geospatial Data sir.can you please send me some free sites to download more papers related to papers related to grass gis. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Keith Jenkins <k...@cornell.edu<mailto:k...@cornell.edu>> wrote: Hi, Landon. You might want to look at Robert Goodspeed's recent article looking at the response to GIS data requests that he sent to hundreds of local governments across Massachusetts. His article (open-acess!) has a whole section discussing the various licensing restrictions and data policies that he encountered: http://www.urisa.org/files/Goodspeed%2023_2_0.pdf Cheers, Keith On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Landon Blake <sunburned.surve...@gmail.com<mailto:sunburned.surve...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I haven't found much at all in the way of information about the > licensing of geospatial data. If you have some references I can > investigate, I would appreciate that. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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