> Those individuals who are concerned should lobby the government NOW. Not wait for the licence to be declared, nor any requirements made.
There is already a commitment for CC-BY-3.0 or better due to http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons and http://data.gov.au/about Prematurely lobbying the teams who are responsible for this without understanding prior commitments they've made; and without evidence they'll violate those commitments might do more harm than good. The web link in the above ref (http://data.australia.gov.au) is no longer > valid ... Irrelevant: data.gov.au and data.australia.gov.au are the same site run by the department of finance, the explicit permission was given in response to an email titled *data.gov.au <http://data.gov.au> feedback*. The older URL was simply retired after the Gov 2.0 taskforce was over and pilot phase was done. > At the moment if looks like you have to subscribe and then they send you > out the data. Please read the original announcement carefully. Specifically: "The G-NAF and Administrative Boundaries datasets will be published under an open data licence at no cost to end users on data.gov.au in February 2016."
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