Perhaps someone should make a submission to the Productivity Commission
inquiry if it is the former:
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Subject: [talk-au] The Australian Productivity Commission public
inquiry on Data Availability and Use.
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:35:35 +1000
To: OSM
Hi all,
I've been lurking on this list for a while, work in the Australian
spatial industry (mainly deploying open source GIS software), and am
interested in seeing government data GNAF incorporated into OSM. What
gets worked out with OSM will likely be used for other Australian
datasets as
On 7/12/2016 1:50 AM, Simon Poole wrote:
- the additional requirement to adhere to the AUS privacy regulations
was not addressed in the response, which in itself would be a killer.
It depends if it's part of the license or a reminder that in Australia
there are other laws that may effect what
On 7/15/2016 7:15 PM, cleary wrote:
In regard to the Australian Privacy Principles, I think they have
responded to our concern. On this issue, the earlier response stated
very clearly that "We can also confirm that OpenStreetMap is not
responsible for the actions of your downstream users."
I have had further contact with the Spatial Unit at the Department of
Prime Minister and Cabinet regarding the incompatibility of CC-BY and
ODbL licences. I acknowledged their previous response but asked
politely and respectfully whether it might be possible to review the
situation in the
The issues are essentially:
- we did not receive special permission to distribute the data in OSM
with attribution via the website. IMHO the permission we received for
earlier versions boiled down to allowing us to sub-license on ODbL
terms. This has now been implicitly denied. CC by 4.0 does
I am far from an expert and, like many others, I struggle to understand
all the nuances. However, as I understand it, CC-BY-4.0 data can be
used only if we are given explicit permission to use it. We asked for
explicit permission and the request was declined.
We had previously been given
Is the problem CC 4.0 or is it the riders that have been added? I'm just
wondering if this is a general problem with the other data sets on
data.gov.au.
On 10/07/16 14:06, cleary wrote:
Feedback from the legal-talk list is that the reply from the Department
of Prime Minister and Cabinet is
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