I'm not sure what this has to do with Wikidata, but since the topic was brought up, why did they feel the need to invent a new license? I'm not sure I'd consider their license "open" despite its name since, although the original license grant is perpetual and they allow redistribution, they withhold sublicensing rights and require people receiving redistributions to get their own license directly from Statistics Norway. This effectively means that redistributions aren't guaranteed to be granted licenses in perpetuity since they could decide to stop granting licenses whenever they want.
In addition to making it impossible for anyone to build a commercial information production with, it probably also means that the data can't be used in Wikidata. (Well, actually even the attribution requirement is in conflict with Wikidata's CC0). Tom On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:00 PM, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > At Statistics Norway (SSB) there is a service called "StatBank Norway" > ("Statistikkbanken").[1][2] For some time it has been possible to access > this through an open API, serving JSON-stat.[4] Now they open up all the > remaining access and all 5000 tables will be made available.[3] > > SSB use NLOD,[5][6] an open license on their published data. (I asked them > and all they really want is the source to be clearly given so to avoid > falsified data.) > > [1] https://www.ssb.no/en/statistikkbanken > [2] > https://www.ssb.no/en/informasjon/om-statistikkbanken/how-to-use-statbank-norway > [3] > http://www.ssb.no/omssb/om-oss/nyheter-om-ssb/ssb-gjor-hele-statistikkbanken-tilgjengelig-som-apne-data > (Norwegian) > [4] https://json-stat.org/ > [5] http://www.ssb.no/en/informasjon/copyright > [6] http://data.norge.no/nlod/en/1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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