[Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2016-09-14 05:15 PM, john whelan wrote:
> http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-licence-version-20

This is very neat! I noticed it yesterday, but was too jetlagged from
XOXO to say anything.

> It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should
> mean we can import the GTFS bus stop file.

In theory, yes, but please check with the city that they have all
third-party rights cleared in any data set you propose to import. As was
recently discussed on the Legal-talk list, OGL does not cover
third-party rights:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2016-September/008541.html

(This is something that Bjenk and the Stat Can team will need to take
seriously for any import data sets they wish to use)

cheers,
 Stewart