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

[Stewart Russell]

On Sep 15, 2016 08:08, "Kevin Farrugia" <kevinfarrugia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think Stewart means make sure that the City has the rights to
distribute it if the data is created by some third party.

Thanks, Kevin. That's exactly what I meant.

As was mentioned on the thread I linked to, a UK open address group found
that one of their datasets was derived from a Google Maps geolocation
service. This meant that the data org couldn't use it, even though the data
had a nominal OGL licence. This open data org had government funding and
support at a very senior level, yet couldn't get past this hurdle.

So it's not a question of who owns the facilities, but rather if some third
party has rights lurking in the data. And this would be something we'd have
to ask about.

Cheers
Stewart
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