On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Greg Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I was in the process of adding some data, and had a discussion with another > mapper about whether the license provided by Mississauga Data > (http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/residents/mississaugadata) is compatible > with the OSM licence.
Sorry, Greg, but no. The Mississauga license is a badly copy/pasted version of the Toronto derivative of the fatally flawed Vancouver license. None of them are even compatible with each other. :-/ The various municipalities might have their hearts in the right place by publishing "open data" but they have a parochial perspective that limits their vision to "is this good within municipality boundaries" and "how do we make it so our city is less likely to get sued?" So they keep trying to customize their licenses. That customization creates a nightmare for anybody seeking to combine data sets with those differing, customized licenses. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
