dear all, I tried to sum up the highlights of the discussion that's been hammering the osgeo/geodata and openstreetmap/legal-talk lists over the last few days. Word is that Science Commons say "copyright based licenses don't apply to geographic information (as fact collection)" so there's no point applying a CC- or GPL- derivative license to it.
http://blog.okfn.org/2007/04/01/copyright-not-applicable-to-geodata/ As usual where data licensing is concerned I Am Frustrated, OSGeo has a mandate to offer sane and helpful advice to those wishing to open license geographic data, there is a chance to set a precedent with a couple of different public bodies but advice such as the above seems like a setback from the rough consensus there was a couple of years ago. I quite like the idea of a click-use contract if it is machine-negotiable, cf the project that John Sheridan has going with OPSI right now. But this all sounds novel, I want to be able to point at solid prior art. Argh! jo -- _______________________________________________ geo-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
