[Talk-ca] Federal licence : Confusion

[Bruno Remy]

Thank you Stewart,

Well ... this is the best way to go !

Regards,

Bruno

2015-10-12 8:38 GMT-04:00 Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com>:

> Hi Bruno,
>
> OpenStreetMaps imports CANVEC data.
> CANVEC OpenData are provided by Natural Resources Canada.
> All Natural Resources Canada data are subject to the Open Government
> Licence – Canada.
> <http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada>
> Open Government Licence - Canada includes a restrictive attribution term
> which is not compatible with our ODBL licence.
>
>
> The ‘© OpenStreetMap contributors
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/43.66316/-79.41078>’ link on the
> map has the following in the *Our contributors* section:
>
> *Canada*: Contains data from GeoBase®, GeoGratis (© Department of Natural
> Resources Canada), CanVec (© Department of Natural Resources Canada), and
> StatCan (Geography Division, Statistics Canada).
>
> This would be referring to the explicit permission that NRCan/StatCan gave
> OSM some years ago. This is a form of attribution.
>
> Many other national contributors
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors> use an OGL licence,
> such as in the UK
> <https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/>.
> These contain very similar attribution terms as the OGL-CA licence. I
> noticed our Canada section of the (now vast) contributors' page was missing
> language that the OGL-CA licence requires, so I added it: ‘*Contains
> information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
> <http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada>.*’ I may have
> put it in the wrong place; discuss.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
> (who is totally *not* getting into the *Just because you can, doesn't
> mean you should* bit of the CanVec imports argument; nope, nosirree …)
>
>
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Bruno Remy
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