[Lexicon] GDAL Documentation Glossary

[Cameron Shorter]

Good question re license, and one I don't have a perfect answer for.
I can state with confidence that the intent during the development of this
glossary has been to share the glossary under an open license, selecting
CC-By as the most appropriate license. (I'd suggest using the latest,
CC-By-4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
Glossary terms have been sourced from many sources, many people, many
organizations, often without a clear license definition in the source, and
then improved by multiple people.
For legal reference, we were working within the framework of The Good Docs
Project, which makes use of 0BSD and CC-By, per:
https://www.thegooddocsproject.dev/terms-of-use, which you can consider as
your best source of a license to refer to.

You might we to refer to "Contributors to glossaries from various sources"
or "contributors to glossary initiatives within The Good Docs Project"





On Mon, 19 May 2025 at 17:55, Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Cameron. From the notes it looks like activity around this has
> moved to a Slack channel and away from the mailing list?
> Also is there a licence for the terms at
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oq8Ey78t1TiLsSIH-cf0pWNnWko0CTaMhdR9qhXmJvM/
> ? Would it be possible to add these to a GDAL glossary, with an
> acknowledgement at the bottom of the page?
>
> Seth
>
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> On Tue, May 13, 2025, at 12:17 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Hi Seth,
> Movement on the OSGeo Glossary terms has lapsed.
>
> You can pick up the prior list of terms from this Google Directory
> <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v5ir_VrR71RFxR8ipf9xmpIIH8muEvEK>,
> and in particular, the "Useful stuff" summarized at the top of our old meeting
> notes
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yzncnQB7uYktPnAQ4DqZYVPDdYnqDrWmqHzcpXrjkPg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2fmsyrn3jw6h>
> .
> It is also worth noting that AI tools like ChatGPT are now very effective
> at creating a reasonably decent Glossary from source content.
>
> Good luck,
> I'll be interested to hear how you go.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 8 May 2025 at 19:51, Seth G via Lexicon <lexicon at lists.osgeo.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking at the feasibility of setting up a glossary for the GDAL
> documentation (using Sphinx). I was wondering if anything came out of
> previous discussions in regard to a common/open list of terms and
> definitions relating to GIS?
> It would be great if there was a common starting point that could be used.
>
> Seth
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