<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Richard,<div><br></div><div>Have you approached them to discuss the licenses? We've found in New Zealand at least there is a willingness to at least engage the open data community. The contact details seem to be:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Donna Davis</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Chief Information Officer</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Halifax Regional Municipality</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">490-4417</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><a href="mailto:opendata@halifax.ca" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(154, 50, 205); text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">opendata@halifax.ca</a></div><div><br></div><div>As the the name of the project implies it is a pilot so feedback on the licenses from different groups will have an affect on what happens in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Glen</div><div><div><div>On 11/04/2013, at 2:32 AM, Richard Weait <<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Open Data fans. <br><br></div>The Municipality of Halifax has announced an Open Data Pilot. Sadly, they wrote their own license and it is incompatible with the OpenStreetMap data license, possibly with any other license of any type any where, and common sense. In their first term they declare their license to be "revocable". <br>
<br></div>So. Beware. Don't go near the Halifax data if you are an OSM contributor. <br><br></div>If you are developing an outside project, I wouldn't touch it either. They claim to be able to squash your project by pulling the data if they don't like it. <br>
<br></div>And if you are involved in the Halifax Open Data Pilot, well, I'm sure you have the best intentions. So far it hasn't worked out very well for you. <br></div>
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