On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay seriously guys, no matter how much you hate LWG/OSMF, don't take > this out on AGIMO or the state governments. > Grant's opening post to this thread has been circulated widely by > AGIMO staff today, it's not a hoax and obviously by announcing it > publicly, not behind closed doors!
Can you point me to the public announcement by the AGIMO? Thanks. > > Under the new IP policy, anybody can write to any federal agency and > ask politely for another **open** licence: > > "11.(b) Consistent with the need for free and open re-use and > adaptation, public sector information should be licensed by agencies > under the Creative Commons BY standard as the default. > > An agency’s starting position when determining how to license its > public sector information should be to consider Creative Commons > licences (http://creativecommons.org.au/) or other open content > licences. > > Agencies should license their public sector information under a > Creative Commons licence or other open content licence following a > process of due diligence and on a case-by-case basis." > If the AGIMO has granted OSM the right to publish data.gov.au datasets under a license that does not require attribution, how can I request the same permission from the AGIMO granted to myself? From there can I port it to CC0? If the AGIMO are happy and able to do this, why haven't they done this already? _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
