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.
What exactly do you mean by 'non profit' use? Only registered 501c3
non-profits can use it? Or you mean more like the normal Creative
Commons Non-commercial: 'you may not use this work for commercial
purposes'? Or more like Google's terms: 'The Service may be used only
for services that are generally accessible to consumers without charge.'?
The week before last I attended a 'science commons' conference (see:
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/icfs/), with the goal of trying to get some
answers about using creative commons licenses for geodata, and perhaps
eventually something like a 'geo-commons' license. I did get some
decent answers, which hopefully will be worked in to their more generic
open data FAQ - in short they do believe is possible to use CC licenses
for geodata. But I think we'll have to keep pushing to get more
specific licenses for geodata, and indeed good marketing for them, which
I think is very important.
I'll try to write up more of what I found out soon, but I'd love to hear
more on what people might want out of creative commons licenses (either
actual or in the same style) for geodata. My thinking right now is both
an LGPL and a GPL style 'share alike' (both require contributions back,
one can be combined with other layers, other says all layers must be in
a similar license), an attribution one, and I guess a non-commercial one
(though that's a huge can of worms that I can't get my head around - how
exactly do you define 'non-commercial'). Thoughts? (I'll post a more
detailed write up on the OSGeo geodata list and wiki:
https://geodata.osgeo.org/)
Chris
Dan R. Greening, Ph.D., CEO BigTribe Corporation,
http://dan.greening.name/contact.htm
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.
Andrew
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