[Geodata] geodata Licenses

[Cameron Shorter]

This time with Brian's correct email address.

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Brian Fitzgerald and others at Queensland University of Technology in 
> Australia have been looking into standardising licenses for Australian 
> government data on a combination of:
> * Creative Commons (for ~ 80% of the data)
> * A Creative Commons look alike license which addresses the other 20% 
> of data which includes restrictions on the data.
>
> I suggest to check to see what they have been doing.
> Brain, can you please forward a link to your project.
>
> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>> In Italy we're trying to start a campaign  to invite public 
>> administrations to adopt an open license for their geodata (paid with 
>> public founds... can you imagine).
>>
>> crschmidt, suggested this project from OSM talk list:
>> http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-database-licence/
>> as they state, it's still a beta version.
>>
>> FrankW:
>> "This data is free to use, modify, and redistribute without 
>> restriction."
>>
>> apparently there's still nothing mature to suggest.
>> :-|
>>
>> Lorenzo
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