I got an email back from the guy handling the Licensing. Hi James, thank-you for the email. I’m not sure I understand the compatibility grid. Is there a particular issue you are concerned about?
Note: we have plans to adapt the Open Government License Canada but have not been able to do that quite yet; however, there are few differences between the two, so if there’s a specific item you are concerned about it I might be able to shed some light on how we treat it. Thank-you, Robert Giggey --- What would be the specifics of our license (ODbL) incompatible with Ottawa-TOU? On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:14 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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! > -- 外に遊びに行こう!
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