Wanted to announce that CC-by 4.0 has been adopted as the default license for existing and future spatial datasets on the following repos:
- https://github.com/datameet/maps - https://github.com/datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data Thank you to all contributors who agreed to the license change and enabling this data to be more open than before [1]. With the CC-by license, any reuse only requires attribution to DataMeet community and places no restriction on how the final work is licensed [2] [1] https://github.com/datameet/maps/issues/56 [2] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 10:57 PM Arun Ganesh <arungra...@gmail.com> wrote: > The datameet maps repository has undoubtedly been the most widely used > dataset that we have produced and is often the go to resource for India > boundaries https://github.com/datameet/maps > > Most of the data is currently licensed as CC-by-sa 2.5 and its not > clear if there was a strong reason to adopt that as the default license > many years ago. In the spirit of open data, it might make more sense to > drop the share alike clause and adopt CC-by 4.0 as the preferred license > where the only condition is attribution, This will allow much greater reuse > of these datasets and promotion of the DataMeet community. > > More details on this ticket if anyone has thoughts, especially if there is > any argument in favour of using CC-by-sa: > https://github.com/datameet/maps/issues/56 > > > > > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CA%2BGKQr3_7Gizp-vymiqXWq9ST2hZbXT3%3Dx26kpMTJ%2ByX-EvFrQ%40mail.gmail.com.
