<div dir="ltr">Paul, your signal on licenses for open data is well known in the EU. This week the results of a public consultation and a hearing on licensing and charging of public sector information have been <a href="http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/final-results-and-feedback-ec-consultation-psi-re-use-guidelines">published</a>. The EU sees a standardized license as very important to reach the goal of having a genuine right to re-use the data. Creative Commons commented today on the results [1]. <div>
<br></div><div>Cheers, Johan</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/psi">http://creativecommons.org/tag/psi</a><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/20 Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span><br>
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The effort involved in verifying that a license used only by one city is<br>
usable shows how custom licenses significantly increase the work for<br>
data consumers (e.g. OpenStreetMap), particularly if multiple data<br>
sources are involved. It would be significantly easier if the data was<br>
released following best practices and used an established license such<br>
as, in order of preference: CC0, PDDL, CC BY 4.0, or ODC-BY.<br><br>
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