On 19-12-2011 20:38, john whelan wrote:
Yes because it is the individual contributor who has to accept the
OSM's new licensing terms, the data was not imported directly from
CANVEC into OSM.
As a Canadian tax payer I'm not quite certain I like the idea of OSM
having the power to re-license Government data but that is a separate
issue.
John,
Whether you like it or not, NRCan explicitly allows it, as long as they
are attributed as the source:
/All distributed data should be accessed and used relatively to the
GeoGratis Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement
<http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/licence.jsp>. With this
licence, users are granted a non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free
right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights in the
data. This includes the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with
further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and
distribute the data; and to manufacture and/or distribute Derivative
Products. The Licensee shall identify the source of the Data, in the
following manner, where any of the Data are redistributed, or contained
within Derivative Products: "© Department of Natural Resources Canada.
All rights reserved."
/
See: http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html
Furthermore, NRCan is even spending your tax dollars to facilitate
incorporating their data into OSM.
Personally, as a former Canadian tax payer I can say that what NRCan
does is one of the best ways of my tax dollars being spent :) It's too
bad that the national mapping agency which is currently being funded by
my tax euros takes a way less proactive stance towards open data. At
least by decree of our Ministry of Economy, Agriculture and Innovation,
a lot of geospatial and other data will be open in a few weeks :)
Every time when your government is doing something you don't like, are
you going to share that with the world as well?
Frank
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