[Talk-us] Portland, OR datasets might be available

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:44:17 +0000, dion_dock-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ
> wrote:
>
>> Forgive me if this has been brought up already, but Portland, OR seems
>> to be placing some of its data into the public domain. Is the license
>> suitable for inclusion in OSM?
>>
>> http://www.civicapps.org/about/data-policy
>
> It appears so.  Do we have a page of attributions in the wiki to comply
> with other source's CC-BY and similar licenses?  Their license has some
> specific verbiage required, but otherwise it appears it's in the clear.

This line, in "secondary use" "Data accessed through CivicApps.org do
not, and should not, include controls over its end use. "  Might mean
that their data  can't be included in a project that is
non-commercial, or share-alike.

Folks willing to contribute under the OSM license (and aware of the
change to ODbL) can have an attribution and disclaimer added here.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution

You might consider my review of other municipal data licenses and
recommend that Portland move to PDDL for greater clarity.

http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions