On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Elliott Plack <elliott.pl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings OpenStreetMappers, > > I am very excited to announce that my organization, Baltimore County > Government Office of Information Technology is releasing our GIS data to the > public in a free and nonrestrictive way! Wonderful news! I'm thrilled to hear that you intend to make the Data of The People, By The People and For The People, available to The People. :-) Your use of "public domain" in the subject is potentially confusing, since there is no reliable method for you to declare that the data is in the public domain. Please see the wiki article linked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#Government_works It would be wonderful if you would choose and attach the following license(s) to the data, and your web site on which they are published. ODC PDDL (preferred, because it is specific to data), CC-Zero. Casual references to "making the data public domain" are common, and are probably clouding the matter even further. :( Sorry to play the license-pedant-card and harsh your mellow. You are clearly trying to do the right thing. So many other places / institutions make the same casual references to "making the data public domain" that it is no surprise that you got caught by it. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
