[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC geospatial rights mgt. summit

Ian Turton ijturton at gmail.com
Sat May 30 13:53:02 PDT 2009


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com> wrote:
> How about OGC support for the Science Commons work on a "public domain"
> or "creative commons" type license for geospatial data.
>

That's not going to happen. OGC has many national mapping agencies as
members and USGS and OS are never going to allow this. Plus it isn't
any of the OGC's business as to what sort of licenses are used on
data.

Ian



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