Difference between revisions of "Geodata Licensing Working Group"

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-This is a project started by the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]]
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-The right to reuse and redistribute publically accessible bodies of data needs to be clear. This group can help provide guidelines for public geodata licensing, both of community-contributed and state-collected bodies of data.
-== Focus ==
-* Provision of clear guidelines for licenses, and the implications of their uses, for people contributing data to geospatial web / GSDI efforts.
-* Potential work on a draft LPGL license to complement the draft [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl/ PGL].
-[[Image:Cc_license_smaller.png]]
-== Participants ==
-* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
-* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
-* [[User:Pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (Jo and Schuyler need company :)
-* [[User:dF|Daniel FAIVRE]]
-* [[User:fbiasi|Frank Biasi]]
-* [[User:cholmes|Chris Holmes]]
-* [[User:Dsampson|Dave Sampson]]
-* [[User:punkish|Puneet Kishor]]
-* ''your name here''
-== Existing and related projects ==
-* [http://geodatacommons.umaine.edu/ Geodata Commons]
-* [http://www.okfn.org/wiki/OpenKnowledgeDefinition Open Knowledge Definition] survey of open license stances, a superset of this effort.
-== Geodata Licenses ==
-=== Public Geodata Licence ===
-* original [http://sig.cwriter.org/index.php/PGL Public Geodata License] (French/English)
-** [[PGL English translation]] (because PDFs are a pain to read)
-* [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl Group PGL-Canada (OLD. See Ottawa-OSGEO PGL)]
-* [https://ottawa.osgeo.org/servlets/ForumMessageList?forumID=19 Ottawa-OSGEO PGL]
-=== Canadian Unrestricted Use Licence ===
-* [http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp Geobase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement] - BSD style license
-* [http://www.cits.rncan.gc.ca/cit/servlet/CIT/site_id=01&page_id=1-021-001-007.html same license at Natural Resources Canada]
-=== Creative Commons ===
-* [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] is not a data-specific license, but Open
-[[Image:Osm_license_small.png]]
-== References ==
-* [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl/ Public Geodata License] - [http://sig.cwriter.org/index.php/PGL French version, and cooperative website for license writing]
-* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Legal_FAQ OpenStreetmap Legal FAQ]
-* [http://www.spatial.maine.edu/geodatacommons/PubCommonsSNGL.pdf Public Commons of Geographic Data - Research and Development Challenges (PDF)] - discusses IP issues
-* [http://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/11079.html Licensing Geographic Data and Services] - book with some sample PDFs - cf [http://www.nap.edu/books/0309092671/html/213.htm Section 3, Chapter 9]
-* [http://sciencecommons.org/data The Science Commons Data project] - explores ways to assure broad access to scientific data
-== See Also ==
-* [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]
-* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]

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