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

[Sajith VK]

I may be able to spend a couple of hours per week for this.
Whoever is taking over this work can give some load to me
But I am also not so good in reviewing License and policies...


On 7/19/05, Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan at intevation.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:44:53PM +0200, Chris Holmes wrote:
> > I'm potentially interested in this, though really shouldn't take on
> > more duties.  But I'm not sure about the license thing - what licenses
> > are 'acceptable' to you?  I mean, honestly the GPL doesn't really
> > cover anything other than software, it's very specifically aimed at
> > software, and even C++ at that, with the static linking and all.
> >
> > My organization (The Open Planning Project, we're a non-profit in nyc,
> > primary supporter of geoserver) is going to be looking into building
> > tools to help enable more open datasets - community editing tools on
> > top of WFS like attributions, revisioning, history, rollbacks,
> > security, ect. - wiki like functionality and beyond.  And then a part
> > of it is we'll probably try to get Creative Commons working on some
> > map data specific licenses.  I met Lessig in South Africa and he
> > seemed interested in having CC work on them - they have a few
> > thoughts, since data can't actually be copyrighted, but there are
> > ideas on how to get around that.  I think even just a set of licenses
> > for mapping data could help us a lot, to point at something clear that
> > people could stick on their data.  That combined with much better,
> > standards based tools for collaboration I think may help open geo data
> > out a lot.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'd love also to see a license discussion come up. Many projects
> are looking for better licenses for their geodata.
> GNU GPL is definitly for Software and of limited applicability for
> geodata. A more suitable license with the same base idea as GNU GPL
> is something I am personally interested in.
> 
> Best
> 
>         Jan
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