On Jun 2, 2017 6:40 PM, "john whelan" <[email protected]> wrote:
Treasury Board Canada's Open Data License 2.0 has been reviewed by the legal working group and deemed OK. The City of Ottawa's license which was derived from the TB one has been accepted. Yes, the whole Federal licence has passed LWG muster. Ottawa and a select few other places like Vancouver have too. TB is coming out with a tool kit for open data for the municipalities which includes the suggested licence. We don't know what this will look like yet, and if munis have any latitude to change it, they likely will and thus break it. Licences which are not based not the TB license such as Toronto and Ontario are going through LWG at the moment. But this review is only of Ontario and Toronto. There are hundreds of tiny variations across the country, so there can be no blanket approval. Even differences in punctuation matter. Even if we got Toronto approval, that wouldn't cover the Toronto Public Library data, for example. That's under a different licence still. So for the moment I would suggest you help yourself to City of Ottawa Open Data and that available through the TB portal Not just TB, but all of data.GC.ca is under the federal OGL-CA 2.0. This includes NRCan, Industry Canada, and many others. But not the federal shipping charts or aviation data: those are still vigorously protected. Stewart
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