Absolutely Cameron! Big kudos to the Australian government for opening up so much data! Of course the main thing now is that the competition generates compelling services and applications - that will in some way be useful for ordinary citizens.
I was mainly curious to follow up the conversation that you started with Mia - and to see what others thought. I figured this list, of all lists, would be a pretty good place to continue the discussion. I am not an expert, and would be interested to hear what lawyers and legal experts thought about this case, for future reference. Jonathan On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Cameron Neylon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > Yes, there are some potential issues. I think however the important thing > here is to make sure that people get the kudos for actually liberating this > data at all. Getting this out of governments, and the Australian government > in particular is tough, so some concerns about whether the logistics are > correct, should be seen in the light of what is a really big achievement, > both in Australia and increasingly in other governments. > > Its a move in the right direction but we shouldn't let our geeky obsession > with licences overtake the support for the principles. > > Cheers > > Cameron > > > On 01/10/2009 13:59, "Jonathan Gray" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I recently blogged about the MashupAustralia competition, which was >> announced yesterday: >> >> >> http://blog.okfn.org/2009/10/01/australian-government-releases-open-data-for-m >> ashupaustralia-competition/ >> >> The competition is putting out lots of open data to encourage innovate >> re-uses - which is great news! >> >> Lots of the data is being released under CC-BY. On the competition >> home page, Cameron Neylon raises the question of whether this is >> appropriate for data, sparking off debate with Mia Garlick, organiser >> of competition and ex-Creative Commons counsel: >> >> >> http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/30/your-invitation-to-mashupaustralia/#comment >> -1818 >> >> Her basic argument seems to me to be that CC licenses are not "mere >> (copyright) licenses" but are also contracts - in which case CC-BY >> offers legal protection. Its seems that the rationale for doing this >> is that government departments want attribution. >> >> Would be great to have thoughts and opinions of people here! > > -- > Scanned by iCritical. > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
