I've been talking to Ottawa's CIO and he understands the licensing concerns. Apparently they are thinking of changing it but what would be useful is a internal OSM consensus on whether ODbL or PDDL is best. I understand that new people who sign up to OSM are being asked to release under ODbL.
Thanks Cheerio John On 12 May 2010 14:41, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:15 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/05/12/ottawa-open-data.html > > > > It will probably take some time before we can digest it but it looks like > it > > should be available soon. > > That's good news that Ottawa is open to Open. Thanks for bringing > this link to us. > > You might recall my interest in seeing municipalities select the right > license when they publish their data. I see that they include > promising guidelines in the article but no mention of a specific > license. > > "8. License-free Data is not subject to any copyright, patent, > trademark or trade secret regulation. Reasonable privacy, security and > privilege restrictions may be allowed.” > > I see that Thomas has already found the Ottawa license and drawn some > of the same conclusions I did regarding the Edmonton, Toronto and > Vancouver licenses. I don't see a date on Thomas' post so I don't > know if he drew any inspiration from my article. Thomas recommends > ODbL for municipal licenses where I recommend PDDL. > > http://www.dataott.org/app/need/show/6 > http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions > > Too bad we can't use the Ottawa data under this license for OSM. > > Best regards, > Richard >
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