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

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Thu Jul 8 11:27:57 BST 2010


On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, nicholas.g.lawrence at tmr.qld.gov.au wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>  I'm a bureaucrat, and whilst I can't speak for all bureaucrats,
>  I'm keen to release data under a CC license simply to reduce
>  my workload.
> 
>  Nick

g'day Nick
i have met many bureaucrats in Canberra; especially department of health and 
ageing.
That's the mob on whom I base my understanding.
It has taken about 2 years to get a report by a government committee 
published, trying to get it past all the "necessary" hurdles




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