On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just sent an enquiry to the AGIMO asking if this is true because > the LWG has given no proof. > > Just like others I would like to know if the AGIMO has the authority > to do a blanket license grant on other agencies data, or if they have > actually received this special permission from each agency who's data > is on data.gov.au. > > Thirdly if this is true, then I feel this is shockingly poor behaviour > of the AGIMO. To grant special permissions exclusively to one party, > which is made even worse when done behind closed doors... I would very > much welcome less restrictive licensing of government owned data, but > to give special privilege to OSM but no one else isn't very good > behaviour of a Government in my humble opinion. >
Righto, I've got a response from the AGIMO. They have clarified that they have not granted any additional license to OSM. OSM can only use the data under the existing licenses (i.e. the existing CC licenses). >From my understanding of the response I got from the AGIMO, the AGIMO provided clarification on the attribution requirement of the CC licenses applied to the government datasets. The AGIMO said OSM is required to attribute the authors [of the government CC licensed datasets], and they are happy with the attribution OSM gives on the wiki. The AGIMO are also happy for end users of OSM data [where that OSM data contains CC gov data] to attribute the data as from OSM, and then have OSM attribute the government source. So in other words they are happy for their attribution to be chained through the works. My understanding all along was you have the OSM database, that database is a collective/collaborative work, and every contributor owns the copyright/join copyright to the parts of the database that they have contributed. Any users of the OSM database must attribute all the individual copyright holders as per the CC-BY-SA license, but most OSM contributors seem happy with OSM data users attributing "OSM Contributors" with a link to OSM.org, where in turn they can find more fine grain attribution via the planet dump or API. However, if the OSMF wanted to license the OSM database which included CC-BY data.gov.au works under a license where map images made from such data need not provide any attribution, then OSMF doesn't have the rights to grant that right, as they don't own the copyright to data.gov.au data, nor do they have permission to license such data under a license that does not require any form of attribution for produced works. That is my concern, however I'm not really up to speed with produced works and that whole area, so any pointers of my flaws are quite welcome. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
