[talk-au] cc-by not compatible with ODBL ?

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Wed Jul 7 22:31:30 BST 2010


On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, John Smith wrote:
> On 8 July 2010 07:13, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > I don't think that they are compatible.
> > My experience of law is small and it is an opinion only.
> 
> I've said for a while that I agree in principal with the license
> change, but the devil was always in the details. I was under the
> impression that ODBL would be at the very least be compatible with
> cc-by...
> 
> > Certainly we would have to negotiate with federal and state governments
> > to be sure that the imported stuff (coastline, boundaries, national
> > parks etc) could stay.
> 
> I have it on good authority that various departments are already
> unhappy about sharing at all, and I highly doubt at this point in time
> that most/all government departments would agree to anything less than
> a guarantee attribution.


Bureaucrats have their own agendas
and are most unlikely to want to share "property"
GIS knowledge is power, undiluted and building up your own GIS threatens many 
systems.

-- 
Tempt not a desperate man.
		-- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"




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