[OSM-legal-talk] auckland city council copyright notice

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Mon Nov 1 01:44:32 GMT 2010


On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> the auckland city council has this as its copyright notice. how
> compatible would this be with cc-by-sa, or odbl?
>
> http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/en/pages/Copyrightstatement.aspx
>
> if it isn't, which items are incompatible?

Wow.  Do they even have (and offer) data?  It's not immediately
obvious to be if they do offer data.

Municipalities shouldn't write licenses; it ain't their job.  It ain't
their core competence.  Their citizens ain't paying for the city to do
license composition and maintenance.

Municipalities should publish data under PDDL,[1] to limit their
liability, and make the data available to the widest possible
audience.

I shouldn't critique their license. I've just had dinner and a lovely
bottle of wine.  Let's just say I wouldn't touch it.

Best regards,
Richard



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