[Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

[Paul Norman]

On 8/17/2015 8:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> Hi James,
>> but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data 
>> from data.ottawa.ca/dataset <http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset>. Which I 
>> documented here:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission
>
> I'm not a legal expert, but I think that OSM would have trouble with 
> some of the licence terms, such as 
> http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/terms-use#terms

Yes, the Ottawa terms are pretty clearly incompatible with 
OpenStreetMap, and do not meet the Open Definition. Giving us permission 
is fine, but we need to be certain that the city realizes what it is 
granting permission for, and we should also make sure that they realize 
the license they currently have is non-open and a problem.
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