I am following up on this thread, and cross-posting to several lists
-- sorry for the noise -- to inform you all of my related activities.
I have spent the past five days in Atibaia, Brazil at a
CODATA-organized (http://www.codata.org) workshop on Open Access to
Scientific Data
Thanks for that Link Michael.
It will be useful.
Landon
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Subject: RE: [Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata
Of Dave Patton
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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
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'
Chris Holmes wrote:
Do you have a link to the Database Directive stuff on osm-talk? I checked
out the list but there's a lot there and wasn't sure which posts to read.
I just got off the phone with the lead counsel of Science Commons, which
is the branch of CC made to deal with data. It was
Chris Holmes wrote:
Do you have a link to the Database Directive stuff on osm-talk? I checked
out the list but there's a lot there and wasn't sure which posts to read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_directive
mostly it just follows from that page... maybe richard could help more?
On 3/30/07, Jason Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kamloops (Canadian municipality) takes an interesting approach. They have a
click-through, but it's not asserting any rights, just disclaiming liability.
Their GIS manager explained that they are essentially placing the data into
public
Dear all
It's incredibly cool that governments are thinking of using CC foe geodata.
Our legal-talk and other lists have found a whole ton of problems with
it though (we use a CC license in OSM).
I'd be super interested in seeing the results and if any lawyers think
that they're valid for
Do you have a link to the Database Directive stuff on osm-talk? I checked
out the list but there's a lot there and wasn't sure which posts to read.
I just got off the phone with the lead counsel of Science Commons, which
is the branch of CC made to deal with data. It was an interesting
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata
Do you have a link to the Database Directive stuff on osm-talk? I checked
out the list but there's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/03/2007 04:45:26 PM:
On of the aims of OSGeo is the promotion of open geodata. From
conversations I've had with various people over time it appears one of
the difficulties data providers may have with this is licensing.
There's no obvious candidate license for
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