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

[john whelan]

When I spoke to the head of OC transpo he assured me that OC transpo has
full rights to the information as it created the set of where the bus stops
are and maintains this information for disabled access reasons. OC is 100%
owned by the city of Ottawa.

Cheerio John

On 15 September 2016 at 14:13, Stewart Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 15, 2016 08:08, "Kevin Farrugia" <kevinfarrugia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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