Re: [talk-au] Making the case for ODbL licensing of state government open data

2017-04-28 Thread Simon Poole
Nick Thank you for your interest in the topic and your support. I'm the chair of the OSMF licence/legal working group and an Aussie ex-pat (very very ex) that lurks here are bit, and am fairly opinionated on the topic :-). As Phil has pointed out if you want to have a larger discussion the

Re: [talk-au] Making the case for ODbL licensing of state government open data

2017-04-27 Thread Phil (The Geek) Wyatt
One more link that has some info in relation to CC BY 4.0 https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/ From: Nicholas G Lawrence [mailto:nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 8:53 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] Making the

[talk-au] Making the case for ODbL licensing of state government open data

2017-04-27 Thread Nicholas G Lawrence
Hello Australia OSM, I am a spatial science officer in Qld Transport and Main Roads, involved in the provision of Open Data for public consumption. Our data is generally released under a CC-BY license, but I have an opportunity to make a case for the ODbL to be a license option. Currently data