[talk-au] Making the case for ODbL licensing of state government open data

[Simon Poole]

Nick

Thank you for your interest in the topic and your support.

I'm the chair of the OSMF licence/legal working group and an Aussie
ex-pat (very very ex) that lurks here are bit, and am fairly opinionated
on the topic :-).

As Phil has pointed out if you want to have a larger discussion the
legal-talk mailing list is likely the best place, but you should know in
advance that licence topics tend to lead to fairly heated discussions.

I don't want to pre-empt any other larger discussion, but from my pov a
licence of OGD needs to be somewhat different than a project like
wikipedia or OpenStreetMap, the two big global community projects that
consume and -produce- open data. I personally consider CC BY, CC BY-SA
and the ODbL as not appropriate for government data, and I would suggest
publishing on OGL terms without requiring downstream attribution for
anything that you really want to be re-used.

That said, publishing the data on ODbL terms or better ODC-By would
without doubt make our life easier than the current widely used CC
licences, which as you can see from my blog post that was pointed to,
have a number of undesirable properties (for example: why would the Qld
government want to stop Netflix from using something created from your
data in a production?).

Simon

Am 28.04.2017 um 00:53 schrieb Nicholas G Lawrence:
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> Hello Australia OSM,
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> I am a spatial science officer in Qld Transport and Main Roads,
> involved in the provision of Open Data for public consumption.
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> Our data is generally released under a CC-BY license, but I have an
> opportunity to make a case for the ODbL to be a license option.
> Currently data custodians choose a license from a list of pre-approved
> licenses, and I am hoping to add ODbL to that list.
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> But first I have to put forward a clear case why this should be
> considered. Is there a clear argument written down somewhere I can
> refer to?
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> Also, I am not clear on the incompatibilities between ODbL and
> specific types of CC licenses. For example, is CC-BY compatible whilst
> CC-BY-SA not compatible? How about CC-0?
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> Thanks,
> Nick Lawrence
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