[CivicAccess-discuss] Fwd: DataBC (Beta) is now live. COMMERCIAL re-use

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Dear Tracey,

 

your wrote:

Even apps developers are closing their apps and
selling them with open data inside them, hardly in
keeping with the ideas of openness 

 

 

(we all bear in mind that PSI re-use and OGD do
constitute different topics. But anyway, there are
interrelated to a certain extent).

 

When the European Commission in 1987 and later in
2000 started to push open data,  they had the
following telos in mind:

 

a.       Jobs in the ICT and telecom sector did
already stagnate, and no further jobs were
created. Nowadays they even sack employees.

b.      Therefore they thought that INSTEAD the
CONTENT sector might great new jobs - and
primarily LOCAL jobs, done by SMEs

c.       Therefore, they pushed the PSI re-use to
provide them with fresh and cheap raw material.

 

I listened to Richard Stallman two weeks ago in
Vienna. I do share his thoughts. But anyway,
somebody has to create new jobs to help us out of
the economic crisis.

 

Kind regards from lazy Europe,

 

 

Gerard

 

 

 

Von: civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca
[mailto:civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca
] Im Auftrag von Tracey P. Lauriault
Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Juli 2011 19:19
An: civicaccess discuss
Betreff: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Fwd: DataBC
(Beta) is now live.

 

It is good to have home grown, even better to
build on international examples to foster greater
legal and policy interoperability. 

 

Canadian  'open data' licencing is a balkanized
system. What is legal in one town or
province/territory conflicts with another or other
levels of government and also internationaly.
Even apps developers are closing their apps and
selling them with open data inside them, hardly in
keeping with the ideas of openness - $ could be
made with open source apps using open data - apps
licencing and open data licencing.

 

It would be really great if we could encourage
cities, provinces, territories, national
departments and agencies to work more closely with
CIPPIC and with each other to aim towards some
sort of unity in licensing and understandings of
what openness really is.  The UK, New Zealand and
Australia are examples of this type of CC
licensing. They are Westminster systems like
Canada's and we could embrace something like this
if only we worked together more and worked with
the public legal agencies that can best lead us
toward better licensing.  Open data citizens, I
would argue, need to foreground licencing along
with their hackfest ideals & apps development
zeal.

 

I know this is a dry read, and that I have
mentioned it on numerous occasions, but worth
reading nonetheless -
http://www.cippic.ca/open-licensing/.

 

Cheers

t

 

 

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mulley
<michael at michaelmulley.com> wrote:

In particular, I read the license the data is
available under and
started grinning. It's based on the UK opengov
license, but it's a
custom BC version, which in this case may be good:
a homegrown
Canadian example, created by a provincial
government. David Eaves
wrote more this morning:
http://eaves.ca/2011/07/19/province-of-bc-launches
-open-data-catalog-what-works/


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pamela MacDonald <pamelamacd at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Subject: [OpenDataBC] DataBC (Beta) is now live.
To: OpenDataBC <opendatabc at googlegroups.com>


http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/dbc/index.page?

The Province has launched their new site and
included the first
release of datasets in the link above.

Pamela
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