[talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

[Michael Collinson]

On 15/11/2011 11:58, 80n wrote:
> Can you please publish the verbatim correspondence that you have had 
> with your man at data.gov.au <http://data.gov.au>?  Your 
> interpretation is fine, but others may see nuances that you have 
> overlooked.
>
> The statement on the wiki is not a statement from data.gov.au 
> <http://data.gov.au> and counts for nothing unless you have a document 
> from your man at data.gov.au <http://data.gov.au> that references it 
> and says yes that's ok.  Do you have such a document?

Gosh, this is getting kakfaesque. Hope this puts this it to bed:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.gov.au_explicit_permission 
and copied below in response to my request today, also copied below.

Mike
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Hi Michael,

Thank you for your email.

The attribution statement

“Contains data from Australian government public information datasets. 
The original datasets are available from the Australian government data 
website <http://data.gov.au/> under Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 
Australia (CC-BY) <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/> and 
Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC-BY) 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/>. We have also been 
given explicit permission to incorporate and publish such CC-BY licensed 
geographic coordinate datasets under a free and open license, including 
the Open Database License, provided that primary attribution is made 
here and that each dataset used is also listed here in the format 
/Dataset Name, Date Published, License, Agency Name, originally 
retrieved from// //http://data.australia.gov.au/ 
<http://data.australia.gov.au/>: “

accurately reflects what we have said.

Regards,

Data.gov.au team.
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On 15/11/2011 11:35, Michael Collinson wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Thanks for your email of 19th October.   I am rather embarrassed to do 
> this but may I ask to you give a more formal assent to satisfy some of 
> our map data contributors and that I can publish?
>
> May be: "The attribution statement
>
> “Contains data from Australian government public information datasets. 
> The original datasets are available from the Australian government 
> data website <http://data.gov.au/> under Creative Commons - 
> Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY) 
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/> and Creative Commons 
> - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC-BY) 
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/>. We have also been 
> given explicit permission to incorporate and publish such CC-BY 
> licensed geographic coordinate datasets under a free and open license, 
> including the Open Database License, provided that primary attribution 
> is made here and that each dataset used is also listed here in the 
> format /Dataset Name, Date Published, License, Agency Name, originally 
> retrieved from// //http://data.australia.gov.au/ 
> <http://data.australia.gov.au/>: “
>
> accurately reflects what we have said."
>
> Regards,
> Michael Collinson
> OpenStreetMap Foundation

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