[Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely available geodata

[Dave Patton]

Jason Birch wrote:
> I'm sure that most of you have seen this, but these two free data
> resources (provincial and federal Canadian governements) are both
> employing a form of copyleft:

> Kamloops (Canadian municipality) takes an interesting approach.

Given the interest, maybe the 'OSGeo people' who are already
involved could organize a BOF session, and also do some
presentations. If there are 'local' resources such as
Canadian municipal/provincial/federal managers(or perhaps
even better, people from their legal departments) who
could attend, then perhaps they could also participate
in the BOF/presentations. Also, maybe there are lawyers
who are local(e.g. Victoria or BC) any who have some
interest or expertise who could attend - even if their
perspective is based on Canadian law, it might still
help illuminate the discussions.

-- 
Dave Patton

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