[Freegis-list] Geographic data licencing

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:26:46AM -0700, Brent Wood 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.
> >
> > For FreeGIS, this remains an open discussion. Of course some things
> > are clear, such as: limited use or no right to distribute renders
> > a dataset non-free.
>
> A couple of points on this:
>
> The licence used by Land Information New Zealand
> (LINZ, see "Licence Agreement" link at
> http://www.linz.govt.nz/rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/Topography/TopographicData/topodtabase/index.jsp
> )
>
> seems similar to the BSD licence. Once purchased ($2500NZ), you can
> just about
> do what you like with it except hold LINZ liable. You can
> sell/give/rework as
> you desire. Overall, I like it. I believe (but haven't checked
> recently) that
> much of the Australian and Canadian government data is under a similar
> licence.

that license is interesting.
One uncertainty remains: what are in fact
the rights of a third party receiving the data.
Maybe an official inquiry to LINZ could clarify that?

Best

	Jan

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