[OSM-legal-talk] Australian Government and other import/derivation source licenses due diligence

[Mike Collinson]

At 10:46 AM 14/08/2010, Richard Fairhurst wrote under the  thread [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA is compatible with ODbL?:

>Michael Collinson wrote:
>> I have moved this from "[OSM-talk] Voluntary re-licensing 
>> begins"  to legal talk as it is worth further discussion in 
>> view of dilemmas faced by our Australian community.  I 
>> understand that CC-BY-SA is currently a preferred vehicle 
>> for releasing government data.
>
>Is it? I thought most of the Australian Government data was CC-BY - a much
>easier problem.
>
>cheers
>Richard

Indeed, a, er, happy afternoon tracking these down has indicated that all, with the possible exception of Australian Bureau of Statistics suburb and other boundaries, can be traced back explicitly to Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/legalcode

I used http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue#Community_Imports as my initial source. I still have some question marks below. Any help on resolving them would be greatly appreciated.

Indeed, any help filling in our Import Catalogue with links pointing directly to an actual license or authoritative description would greatly speed the work of the License Working Group.

Mike

QLD DCDB-lite Queensland Castradal boundaries  - CC-BY 2.5 Australia 

ABS     Australian Bureau of Statistics, suburb and other boundaries - one place says CC-BY-SA another says Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia ... cannot find confirmation on ABS website http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/1259.0.30.002Main+Features12006?OpenDocument seems to be the starting point.

QLD parks - Queensland national parks, state forests and conservation areas - Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY) 

NSW GNB - Geographic Names Board places NSW, Australia - Attribution? 

Bureau of Meteorology - GWeather stations Australia  - http://www.bom.gov.au/other/copyright.shtml (leads to Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 2.5 Australia licence.) + http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Bureau_Of_Meteorology/ImportBureau_of_Meteorology 

ACT BBQs/Picnic Sites http://data.australia.gov.au/18 - Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY) 
ACT Public Toilets http://data.australia.gov.au/55 - Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY) 
ACT Schools http://data.australia.gov.au/21 - Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY) 

Victoria Police Victorian police stations Victoria, Australia  Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence. ? (Data sets on http://www.data.vic.gov.au/ are this license, unless otherwise specified ... can't fond this one)

BP Australia - BP service stations Australia  - ? 

Caltex Australia - Caltex service stations Australia  - ? 

Nearmap - derived data via tracing - CC-BY-CA with vertical virality explicitly expressed