[Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

[Stewart C. Russell]

Hi James —

> What should I tell Stephen, to change the license for just OSM or in whole?

For simplicity, they'd need to change the licence for everyone. A
special carve-out for OSM alone would be fraught with problems.

Ideally, they'd chose a licence that isunencumbered, like CC0 or PDDL.
Any attempt to roll your own licence adds compatibility problems, and
municipalities do love to keep those little clauses in that allow them
to recall data.

If you want to show Stephen how compatible and open the city's licence
isn't, show him this:

 http://clipol.org/licences/16?tab=licence_compatibility

It shows how Canadian municipalities all shared and tweaked licences,
and inadvertently made them incompatible with everything. And they
complain about why no-one uses their data.

If they do want to change (great!), I know there are some folks on this
list just itching for a roadtrip to the NCR to do some municipal education …

cheers,
 Stewart