Hi Richard, Have you approached them to discuss the licenses? We've found in New Zealand at least there is a willingness to at least engage the open data community. The contact details seem to be:
Donna Davis Chief Information Officer Halifax Regional Municipality 490-4417 [email protected] As the the name of the project implies it is a pilot so feedback on the licenses from different groups will have an affect on what happens in the future. Good luck! Glen On 11/04/2013, at 2:32 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Open Data fans. > > The Municipality of Halifax has announced an Open Data Pilot. Sadly, they > wrote their own license and it is incompatible with the OpenStreetMap data > license, possibly with any other license of any type any where, and common > sense. In their first term they declare their license to be "revocable". > > So. Beware. Don't go near the Halifax data if you are an OSM contributor. > > If you are developing an outside project, I wouldn't touch it either. They > claim to be able to squash your project by pulling the data if they don't > like it. > > And if you are involved in the Halifax Open Data Pilot, well, I'm sure you > have the best intentions. So far it hasn't worked out very well for you. > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
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