It is a continuing source of frustration to me that Canadian municipalities believe that they may attach any conditions to the data of the citizens.
They may not. They must not. Municipalities, provinces / territories and the federal government serve at the pleasure of the citizens. The citizens permit the various governments to collect certain data required to effectively do the jobs that the citizens demand of the governments. The citizens do not permit the governments to restrict the use of this data in any way. The governments MUST publish that part of the collected data that is suitable for publication*. For any level of government to NOT YET be publishing the data of their citizens is for that government to demonstrate itself as incompetent. The government IS NOT mandated by the citizens to include ANY restrictions on the data of the citizens. (that data which is suitable for publication) The data of the citizens MUST be published as public domain data. Since Canadian data law makes no allowance for publication as public domain data, such data must be published under ODC-PDDL. For a municipality to insist on any restriction to the use of the citizens published data is a demonstration of incompetence and ignorance. For a municipality to insist on attribution is a demonstration of monstrous ego. ODC-PDDL is the correct license for Open Data published by Canadian governments. Attribution licenses, regardless of license publisher / maintainer are not. * Data suitable for publication excludes the data that citizens insist that the government hold securely. Medical and other sensitive data is not suitable for publication as Open Data. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
