On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Stefan Schwarzer <[email protected]> wrote: > In case it might be useful to anyone - I worked with some UN Population > Division statistics recently, and in the process I geocoded all the urban > areas in the stats. I thought I could release this enhanced database to the > community, to give something back for all the great free resources that I > use in my daily life. > > The data is here, and I have smacked a CC license on the database. > > Many thanks for your generosity, however, in order to make the data > really usable by anyone anywhere in the world, please consider > releasing the data under a public domain waiver such as PDDL, or > better yet, CC0, especially since your data may have copyrightable > elements. CC0 is the most appropriate waiver for such data. CC > licenses are not appropriate for data, and are discouraged by CC > itself. > > Hi Hugo & others, > don't want to play the bad guy here, but as mentioned above, and from our > experiences with the UNEP GEO Data Portal, re-distribution is somewhat > touchy. As I am not an a lawyer and don't know too much about licensing, > here some parts from UN's WUP website, which indicate some restrictions in > re-distribution ( http://esa.un.org/unup/index.asp?panel=8 ). > > PROHIBITED USES OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS > Users may not: > > 1. Remove or alter the authors' names or the Publisher's copyright notices > or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear in the > Copyrighted Materials; > 2. Systematically make print or electronic copies of multiple extracts of > the Copyrighted Materials for any purpose; > 3. Mount or distribute any part of the Copyrighted Materials on any > electronic network, including without limitation the Internet and the World > Wide Web. > > USES REQUIRING WRITTEN PERMISSION > The United Nations' explicit written permission must be obtained in order > to: > > 1. Use all or any part of the Copyrighted Materials for any Commercial Use; > 2. Systematically distribute the whole or any part of the Copyrighted > Materials to anyone; > 3. Publish, distribute or make available the Copyrighted Materials, works > based on the Copyrighted Materials or works that combine them with any other > material; > 4. Alter, abridge, adapt or modify the Copyrighted Materials, except to the > extent necessary to make them perceptible on a computer screen. >
and, that is precisely why CC0 is *the* most appropriate protocol for most all data. Releasing the above data under a CC0 waiver would indicate that the person doing so knows about the above restrictions, and has waived all interests in maintaining such restrictions. If the person is not authorized to waive such restrictions, then CC0 would be invalid and inappropriate. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
