[Aust-NZ] Your Online Resources - what license is it published under and have you not released information due to licensing issues

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Simon:

We get hit with survey requests a couple of times a year (both as open
source projects and as spatial projects). In future please send a
separate email to each list (otherwise each reply to all will bounce).

You may wish to look into other research (hopefully the surveys we
fill in are available on the web) and cite what information you have
already reviewed; this would reassure us that you not duplicating
effort; and perhaps you can get by with a smaller set of questions.

In general I respond to academic surveys; and not to commercial ones
without some understanding who your customer is and why you are
collecting the information, and where I can get a copy of the results.

Jody

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia
Pty Ltd) <scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ** sorry for the duplication on lists, but I am keen to get a large sample
> **
>
> I would like to canvas all of you. Please either send your response to the
> lists or to me directly (the latter will avoid clogging the lists with
> responses). I will tally and publish the summary of results ASAP. I don't
> intend to specify individuals just provide tallies of licenses used and
> reasons for not publishing. I hope to use this in future discussions
> regarding licensing relevant to OSGeo Members and potential obstacles to the
> release of valuable reference material and how these obstacles can be
> addressed.
>
> The questions are...
>
> 1. Under what license do you release online resources (forum posts, blogs,
> books, videos, tutorials, documents) that you publish?
>
> 2(a). Have you not released information due to licensing issues?
>
> 2(b). If so, why? (short answers please)
>
> If you do not specify the license implicitly on your work please indicate
> "not specified". It is implied then that local copyright laws apply in which
> case indicate the country forum hosted in.
>
> If you publish under different licenses depending on your output please
> split you response into type of material created. If you accept the license
> of the site provider indicate this and preferably indicate what license this
> is.
>
> For example...
>
> 1. stuff released...
>
> - Ubuntu forum posts; site provider license; not specified (UK)
>
> - OSGeo forum posts; site provider license; not specified (USA)
>
> - Make-Believe forum post; Public Domain
>
> - private blogs; not specified (Aust)
>
> - company website; work protected under Australian Copyright Act 1969.
>
> - tutorials; Creative Commons (+Attr. -Deri. -Comm.)
>
> 2a. stuff not released...
>
> - tutorials using sample projects, data use prevented by someone else's
>
> copyright or by a Data Supply Agreements.
>
> - tutorials showing specific methods, avoid competitors knowing how to
>
> conduct certain analysis
>
> - any documents, concern quality will be degraded as others translate or
>
> change works to meet their own means.
>
> - any documents, concern that work will be used for commercial gain by
>
> others to no benefit to myself.
>
> - any documents, too much like hard work to get permission to use local
>
> datasets relevant to my industry (i.e. red tape)
>
> If you know of other people that publish or don't publish on the web
> involved in the FOSS4G community please feel free to send this email to
> them.
>
> Hopefully I will get enough responses that the result is meaningful.
>
> Please have you results in by Friday, 30 July 2010 at 07:00:00 UTC Time. [1]
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> PS. I know that this is only a short time but my experience is that people
> either answer straight away or not at all.
>
> [1]
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=30&year=2010&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
>
> --
>
> Cheers Simon
>
> Simon Cropper
> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
> mailto: scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au
> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au
>
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