[Talk-ca] District of North Vancouver: Licence Check

[Alan Richards]

>From my understanding, the OGL-Canada is deemed compatible with OBDL, but
the OGL-BC was modified slightly and adds a clause that makes it
potentially incompatible. I haven't seen a clear yes/no answer either way
unfortunately.
I've been looking into this myself recently and I tried to update the wiki
at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada:
British_Columbia:Vancouver but I'm running into some bugs with
mediawiki and Captchas not displaying.

Anyway, the OGL for various cities with Open Data in BC seems to be either
copied from OGL-CA or OGL-BC. Depending on the source it may or may not be
compatible. The idea that the OGL has to be forked and could potentially be
different for each jurisdiction is crazy and seems to lead to a lot more
work for the data consumers - a single license within Canada would have
been much simpler.

Alan

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Henry Armitage <h at hpka.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was reviewing the OSM wiki for Vancouver (more accurately, the Metro
> Vancouver Region):
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:
> Vancouver#GIS_sources_by_city
>
> In that, I noted that the District of North Vancouver's Licence is
> given as "restrictive", but no reason nor exact title of the licence
> is given.
>
> The licence can be viewed on the "legal page" link at the top of
> DNV.org's data page: http://www.geoweb.dnv.org/data/
>
> The _current_ licence title is "Open Government Licence - North
> Vancouver". As I say, I am not sure if this version is the licence
> that "restrictive" refers to, from a quick review, it seems OSM
> compatible the way it is written, but I'd like second opinions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Henry
>
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