I am inquiring about data provided by the cities of Toronto, Vancouver, and Edmonton -- all essentially have the same terms of use, almost word-for-word -- and want to identify what the specific problems are with the terms of use.
http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/open_data/open-data-terms-of-use.aspx http://www.toronto.ca/open/terms.htm http://data.vancouver.ca/termsOfUse.htm The problems that I see include: * "If you distribute or provide access to these datasets to any other person ..." * "Upon the request of the City, you may be required to remove a credit from future uses..." * "You assume sole responsibility for your use and reproduction of the datasets and for complying with all applicable laws and industry standards." * The entire "Liability for Not Complying with Terms of Use" section of the terms * The "Cancellation for Non-Compliance" section * No Waiver section * I'm also not sure about the governing law and jurisdiction part For comparison, see the terms of use for data from the DC (Washington DC) government, which we can import: http://data.octo.dc.gov/TermsOfUse.aspx I know a bit about licenses, but not 100% sure about this. Are any of the above, in fact not a problem for us? What additional problems are there with the terms of use? Can anyone elaborate on the points above and advise? Regards, Katie -- Katie Filbert [email protected] @filbertkm
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