[Freegis-list] Looking for a FreeGIS maintainer for geodata entries

[Jo Walsh]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:33:33PM +0200, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> licensing for geodata is indeed a matter that needs further discussion.
> So far, most datasets are Public Domain or some BSDish license, some
> are GNU GPL. Some CC are interesting as well.

on the openstreetmap mailing list we've had a lot of discussion about
open geodata licensing in a practical context, leading to no definite
conclusion other than a loose convergence on CC-BY-SA but that too has
its drawbacks.

http://bat.vr.ucl.ac.uk/pipermail/openstreetmap/2005-January/000211.html
http://bat.vr.ucl.ac.uk/pipermail/openstreetmap/2005-February/000271.html
http://bat.vr.ucl.ac.uk/pipermail/openstreetmap/2005-April/000488.html

Giles Lane got advice from Creative Commons UK on putting together a
CC-style license as a model for the Ordnance Survey which could be
uses for nonprofit licensing of possibly slightly generalised
state-collected geodata.
http://www.okfn.org/geo/geodata_cc_license_draft.rtf


-jo