Re: Open Access to Geospatial Data

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:05:34PM +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> This might be of interest to you:
> http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/papers/commons_giscience2004.pdf
> Also see:
> http://okfn.org/geo/minifesto.php 
[ http://okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php preferred URL for the final version ]

Daniel Faivre has done some good thinking about a GPL-equivalent
'Public Geodata License'
http://www.omsug.ca/dl/osgis2004/pgl_mapserver2004.pdf
http://www.omsug.ca/dl/osgis2004/licenses.pdfhttp://www.omsug.ca/dl/osgis2004/licenses.pdf 
I recall just missing a presentation about this in the Open Source GIS
track at libresoftwaremeeting 2003, can't find archives, *assuming*
that this was Daniel also.

While searching for references i ran across this interesting looking
paper on managing DRM in data distribution with the OGC standards:
http://www.urisa.org/Journal/Under_Review/joffe/geodata_access_while_managing.htm

Giles Lane worked on the compromise-oriented non-commercial use CC
derived license that was submitted to the Ordnance Survey:
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2005-April/000012.html

As Rufus noted, 'Non-commercial' is hard to define, especially on the web. 
Does selling keyword-based advertisement space to subsidise a
free-to-access web mapping service constitute commercial use?
Probably.


-jo