[Talk-ca] Brandon licensing

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2018-03-03 11:59 AM, john whelan wrote:
> 
> I assume you're not Canadian.

Umm, Steve is one of the longest-standing Canadian OSM contributors. I
think he's the admin of talk-ca too …

> All data released through
> their Open Data portal is under their licence which has been approved by
> the LWG.

It was grudgingly approved by the LWG. It's hardly a model licence. It's
kind of a bad read on the UK licence, missing out key details that at
least make the v2+ British licence bearable.

> They spent some three or four years consulting with many
> players including the provincial and municipal governments and the
> licence they came up with is one they feel comfortable with.  It's not
> perfect but it is a good balance.

… if you're a government. Notice you didn't list any data users in the
consulted parties. I remember responding to data consultations as a
user, and a conservative estimate of 0% of user concerns were included
in the final outcome.

> Asking municipal and provincial governments to adopt a different licence
> means they need to do due diligence which means bringing in the lawyers
> to explain the implications.

It didn't seem to stop every single municipal and provincial government
wanting to tweak the wording a bit, which makes it a different licence
every time.

cheers,
 Stewart