On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Elizabeth Dodd <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: >> I'm generally not that overly concerned with the rest of the world, >> but will be really upset with how this will push Australia backwards, >> the ABS data and other datasets recently released by the verious >> Australian governments has been very good in helping to push things >> forward in low denisty areas and there is a lot of data that will just >> up and vanish if they enforce this. >> >> I'm not an OSMF member and have been getting more and more annoyed >> with the way things are headed by the idealists. >> >> I have the resources (hardware/bandwidth) at my disposal to do >> something if I absolutely have to about Australia. I am really hoping >> it won't need to come to that outcome because it will fork resources >> considerably as the camps diverge. > > > > I too am seeing a fork in Australia as a result of this. Why would we need a fork? No current Australian datasets are CC-BY-SA (or NC or ND), only CC-BY. ABS data, QLD boundaries and ACT POIs are "Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY)". You can commercialise and not share the data if you really wish. The risk is that future datasets may have the share-alike attributes and they would not be compatible with ODbL.
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