| Josh and pals,
I just want to give my thanks to you for working on these issues. We are also working with aggregated data that we want to provide free for non-profit use, but want many of these liability issues addressed, and also (of course) want for-profit uses to compensate us so we can keep the lights on.
Having a framework where we can just refer to a CC-Geo-NP (Creative Commons Geography Non-Profit Use) license or some such thing would be a great benefit. I'm sure that's true for lots of folks. On Oct 13, 2006, at 9:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They also seem to be taking seriously and working at using OGC services to provide specific free or low-cost usage of their data, as distinct from "free for any use" delivery of entire datasets. This is a useful and appropriate connection with the concept of mashups. By the way, almost all data made accessible through OGC services and encodings has some rights reserved (e.g. attribution), however they are being regarded as "free and open".
This is assumed for all data sources?
Not assumed, but there are almost always conditions of use. US and Canada are very concerned about the conditions of use even when they distribute data without charge. Liability and all that. Expressing those conditions has just been rather haphazard and not supported explicitly by the OGC Web Services framework up until now (outside of a metadata tag in the WMS capabilities).
My disclaimer: I am working with OS and with OGC on what is called "GeoDRM" but which is actually a wide concept of rights management in the use and distribution of geodata, including such things as Creative Commons and GPL.
So this means there will be a way to specify the actual license under which data is published and aggregated?
The idea is to have a common framework for both referencing and agreeing to a machine-readable license _expression_. Stamping a website with a Creative Commons logo is one approach, but not always the most appropriate, particularly with the variety of ways in which one can process and represent geodata.
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