[Aust-NZ] What Open Government can learn from us Open Source folks

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 02:06:52 PDT 2018


I'm going through and methodically actioning the great feedback on this 
essay.

I've rewritten the first 2 introduction sections to, be more pointed, in 
line with feedback. I'd love another review if you have the time.

Joel,

You are right to call out Government and Open Street Map licenses as an 
anti-pattern to collaboration, and I think it is worthy of a blog post 
on its own. If mapping agencies such as PSMA are not able to share their 
data with the biggest open source geospatial community then we should 
revisit government's approach. I also agree that it is too much detail 
for this particular article, but should be something we follow up on.

Warm regards, Cameron


On 28/2/18 5:45 pm, Joel H. wrote:
> Not that this will fit anywhere in the report, But I wouldn't mind 
> seeing a dual-licence between CC-BY and OBbL. I know OSM is probably 
> at fault because of its restrictive licence, but it would be great for 
> me (an OSM contributor) to get participation with government datasets.
>
> Most governments don't want to waive parts of the CC-BY.
>
> -Joel
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