[open-government] Yes, Microsoft OGDI is open source

Wed Jul 20 23:05:12 UTC 2011

I was looking over the edit history for the Data Platforms Survey (an 
open google doc) on the Data Platforms page of the wiki 
(http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Data_Platform) and noticed that the Yes/No 
field for whether a project was open source had been changed from Yes to 
No for Microsoft OGDI.

I figured it was worth making a point to change that back and comment on 
it as to dispel the assumption and stereotype. Microsoft OGDI (Open 
Government Data Initiative) is in fact open source software released 
under the Microsoft Public License which is an OSI approved Open Source 
License.

http://ogdi.codeplex.com/
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL

I'm cross posting this to Civic Commons Discuss and the OKFN Open Gov 
list because the culprit is on one and not the other. Not that I'm going 
to name names, Rufus, ;)

Not that I don't think CKAN is the leading open source player in this 
space, I just want us to be respectful and acknowledge that there's room 
for many in the ecosystem.

Cheers,
Phil