[Geodata] geodata Licenses

[Richard Fairhurst]

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 understand that Science Commons are considering a dedicated data  
licence at the moment. Because databases do not necessarily benefit  
from traditional copyright protection (in the EU, there's a separate  
database right; in the US, Rural vs Feist etc. have determined that  
there is no protection other than contractual), most existing Creative  
Commons licences - with the exception of the Belgian and Netherlands  
versions - cannot easily be used for data.

cheers
Richard