[Freegis-list] Campaign for rejecting Inspire directive?

[michael gould]

Paolo et al.,

It is not for lack of ideas. See for example the nicely developed
Geo-creative commons paper here:

http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/papers/commons_giscience2004.pdf

The main problem is that you (we) are up against large burocracies, that are
not easily won over using logical or technical arguments :-)

This is why I believe that demos, easy and effective demos, are the best way
to get the message across. Many of these same agancies probably fought
against having websites, but then when it became so easy (and apparently
safe; we'll see what the growing spam and hacker wars create) to have a
website...they were left with no excuse.

cheers,

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Michael Gould
Department of Information Systems (LSI)
Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón Spain
E-mail: gould (at) lsi.uji.es
http://www.mgould.com
http://www.geoinfo.uji.es
 

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De: freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de
[mailto:freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de] En nombre de Paolo Cavallini
Enviado el: sábado, 20 de agosto de 2005 7:47
Para: freegis-list at intevation.de
Asunto: Re: [Freegis-list] Campaign for rejecting Inspire directive?

A pragmatic approach that may be useful:
1. draft an explicit model (or more) for open geodata licence, as an 
alternative to current situation; this may follow GPL, or the Creative 
Commons; care should be taken not to allow what NMA pecieve as theft of data

from commercial companies
2. put together a few lines on why geodata should be free (examples from the

USA, etc); several of you have already written good things about this
3. start circulating a petition on this; it worked for software patents, why

not for geodata?
I'm available to help, if needed.
All the best.
pc

At 13:29, mercoledì 17 agosto 2005, michael gould has probably written:
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