I am writing to inform you that the Open Definition Advisory Council is currently voting on the conformance of Open Government License - Surrey 2.0. ( Surrey, British Columbia )
You are being notified as per our process found here: http://opendefinition.org/licenses/process/ Thank you, Herb Lainchbury Chair, Open Definition Advisory Council ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Herb Lainchbury <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:54 PM Subject: Open Government License - Surrey 2.0 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> I believe we've discussed the OGL Surrey v2.0 sufficiently to assess conformance. In summary, we found the Open Government License - Surrey 1.0 to be non-conformant and sent a formal notice to the City of Surrey making one specific recommendation and two suggestions. Within a few days they released a new version of their license adopting our recommendation and incorporating one of our two suggestions. The suggestion that they didn't incorporate, which we said was not strictly required for conformance, is making their license re-usable by others. In our subsequent discussion there were comments about advice given concerning the license and whether or not that advice should be considered as part of the conformance process. I believe we have settled on the idea that we have to assess the license based on what is written in it. I now request that advisory council members indicate whether they agree that the license conforms to section 2 of the open definition (v2.0) found here: http://opendefinition.org/od/ Please use +1 for agree and -1 for disagree. You can find a discussion here: https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2015-February/001278.html and here: https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2015-March/001293.html You can find the text for the license here: OGL Surrey v2.0 http://data.surrey.ca/pages/open-government-licence-surrey We will continue counting votes for two weeks from now or until consensus is reached, which ever is first. Herb
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