[OSM-legal-talk] Nanaimo OGL license

[Johan C]

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
published<http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/final-results-and-feedback-ec-consultation-psi-re-use-guidelines>.
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].

Cheers, Johan

[1] http://creativecommons.org/tag/psi

2013/12/20 Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>

> ...
>
> The effort involved in verifying that a license used only by one city is
> usable shows how custom licenses significantly increase the work for
> data consumers (e.g. OpenStreetMap), particularly if multiple data
> sources are involved. It would be significantly easier if the data was
> released following best practices and used an established license such
> as, in order of preference: CC0, PDDL, CC BY 4.0, or ODC-BY.
>
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