On 30 May 2009, at 09:21, P Kishor wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:57 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote:
On 29 May 2009, at 19:43, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:
I will be attending the OGC Geospatial Rights Mgt. Summit to be held
at MIT on June 22. I will be giving a 10 min. lightning talk on SC's
thoughts on spatial data, and also be participating in the panel
discussions. Please do send me your input on questions/concerns that
you would like to see discussed/highlighted there that I could
possibly bring up.
Has SC moved on from "everything 'should' be public domain" ?
As far as I understand, SC is for "everything that should be public
domain should be public domain," which is significantly different from
"everything should be public domain."
And who is deciding the 'should'? SC has to step away from deciding
that everything 'should' be PD.
Alternatively CC and Flickr could only let you upload CC-BY photos
because photos 'should' be CC-BY.
I should be able to choose from a variety of SC data licenses just
like I can choose BY, SA, NC from CC. Unfortunately I can't, because
SC has taken a big step beyond what their remit would ideally be and
attached a moral high ground to the license rather than let me have
the choice about my data. That's why the Open Database License now
exists.
Best
Steve
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