Email I got after I said I will be unable to use the data due to incompatible licensing:
James, I’m going to forward this inquiry on to Robert Giggey. He is in charge of the Open Data program at the City. I must say, I am a little surprised that this interpretation is so restrictive. I personally was not aware of this. I will also follow-up with Robert in this regard. *-Stephen* Maybe, they just needed some education? P.s. thank you Stewart for the comparison tool! On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi James — > > > What should I tell Stephen, to change the license for just OSM or in > whole? > > For simplicity, they'd need to change the licence for everyone. A > special carve-out for OSM alone would be fraught with problems. > > Ideally, they'd chose a licence that isunencumbered, like CC0 or PDDL. > Any attempt to roll your own licence adds compatibility problems, and > municipalities do love to keep those little clauses in that allow them > to recall data. > > If you want to show Stephen how compatible and open the city's licence > isn't, show him this: > > http://clipol.org/licences/16?tab=licence_compatibility > > It shows how Canadian municipalities all shared and tweaked licences, > and inadvertently made them incompatible with everything. And they > complain about why no-one uses their data. > > If they do want to change (great!), I know there are some folks on this > list just itching for a roadtrip to the NCR to do some municipal education > … > > cheers, > Stewart > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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