More from the Canadian perspective - the GeoConnections program policy group has produced a "Best Practices Guide" for licensing of geospatial data which might help to inform the debate: http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Best_practices_guide/Guide_to_Best_Practices_v12_finale_e.pdf
It provides a good overview of the background issues and proposes 3 types of licences to standardize on: unrestricted-use with licence acknowledgement (click-through), an "end-user" licence and a distributor licence. Michael Adair GeoConnections Secretariat / Secrétariat de GéoConnexions 615 Booth St, 6th Floor / 615 rue Booth, 6e étage Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E9 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone / Téléphone: (613) 947-1342 Fax / Télécopieur: (613) 947-2410 www.geoconnections.org / www.geoconnexions.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Patton > Sent: April 1, 2007 2:05 PM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely > available geodata > > Jason Birch wrote: > > I'm sure that most of you have seen this, but these two free data > > resources (provincial and federal Canadian governements) are both > > employing a form of copyleft: > > > Kamloops (Canadian municipality) takes an interesting approach. > > Given the interest, maybe the 'OSGeo people' who are already > involved could organize a BOF session, and also do some > presentations. If there are 'local' resources such as > Canadian municipal/provincial/federal managers(or perhaps > even better, people from their legal departments) who could > attend, then perhaps they could also participate in the > BOF/presentations. Also, maybe there are lawyers who are > local(e.g. Victoria or BC) any who have some interest or > expertise who could attend - even if their perspective is > based on Canadian law, it might still help illuminate the discussions. > > -- > Dave Patton > > Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project > http://www.confluence.org/ > > Personal website - Maps, GPS, etc. > http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss