[talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 22:12 +1000, Ashley Kyd wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just trying to do a bit of research to catch up on the issues but
>> found the wiki a bit unhelpful. I've started categorising data sources
>> by license. If you have a spare moment or two and know of any I've
>> missed, please pop by and see if you can tag a few more.
>>
>> Particularly, are there any other Australian data sources other than
>> Nearmap that are CC BY-SA?
>
> Im pretty sure everything from data.gov.au and ABS is CC-BY-SA.

We got this fixed (NC/SA/ND constrain reuse so the potential value of
that information is diminished); From Feburary 2011, CC-BY is the
standard licence for all Commonwealth Public Sector Information (not
just geodata but the budget papers, election costings etc.):
http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/files/2011/02/Draft-Guidelines-on-Licensing-Public-Sector-Information-for-Australian-Government-Agencies.pdf