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

[Adair, Mike]

More from the Canadian perspective -  the GeoConnections program policy group has produced a "Best Practices Guide" for licensing of geospatial data which might help to inform the debate:
http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Best_practices_guide/Guide_to_Best_Practices_v12_finale_e.pdf

It provides a good overview of the background issues and proposes 3 types of licences to standardize on: unrestricted-use with licence acknowledgement (click-through), an "end-user" licence and a distributor licence.  

Michael Adair
GeoConnections Secretariat / Secrétariat de GéoConnexions 
615 Booth St, 6th Floor / 615 rue Booth, 6e étage 
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E9 
Email: mike.adair at NRCan.gc.ca 
Phone / Téléphone: (613) 947-1342
Fax / Télécopieur: (613) 947-2410 
www.geoconnections.org / www.geoconnexions.org 




> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dave Patton
> Sent: April 1, 2007 2:05 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [Geodata] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Promoting freely 
> available geodata
> 
> 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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