[Talk-ca] Ottawa has voted to release its data.

[john whelan]

I've been talking to Ottawa's CIO and he understands the licensing
concerns.  Apparently they are thinking of changing it but what would be
useful is a internal OSM consensus on whether ODbL or PDDL is best.  I
understand that new people who sign up to OSM are being asked to release
under ODbL.

Thanks

Cheerio John

On 12 May 2010 14:41, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:15 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/05/12/ottawa-open-data.html
> >
> > It will probably take some time before we can digest it but it looks like
> it
> > should be available soon.
>
> That's good news that Ottawa is open to Open.  Thanks for bringing
> this link to us.
>
> You might recall my interest in seeing municipalities select the right
> license when they publish their data.  I see that they include
> promising guidelines in the article but no mention of a specific
> license.
>
> "8. License-free Data is not subject to any copyright, patent,
> trademark or trade secret regulation. Reasonable privacy, security and
> privilege restrictions may be allowed.”
>
> I see that Thomas has already found the Ottawa license and drawn some
> of the same conclusions I did regarding the Edmonton, Toronto and
> Vancouver licenses.  I don't see a date on Thomas' post so I don't
> know if he drew any inspiration from my article.  Thomas recommends
> ODbL for municipal licenses where I recommend PDDL.
>
> http://www.dataott.org/app/need/show/6
> http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions
>
> Too bad we can't use the Ottawa data under this license for OSM.
>
> Best regards,
> Richard
>
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