[Geodata] conceptual question: OSGeo Data Project?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Chris Holmes wrote:

> I think similar to the coding projects you'd want a strong community of
> people, a number of different contributors, ect.  One of the tough
> thing will be the legal requirements, since the whole data thing is not
> on firm legal ground.

...yet. Science Commons and Talis are both doing interesting work on  
open data licensing at the moment.

See especially: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/

cheers
Richard