[euopendata] Government Open data Licenses - reasons for rolling your own?

Wed Jan 12 15:48:49 UTC 2011

This is a very interesting point Svein-Magnus. Can you please elaborate on
the issues of accessibility and delivery as well as on the specific
Norwegian Law provisions you are referring to? Couldn't these be covered by
standard public licences or other legal instruments, e.g. Terms of Service/
licenses that make reference to them (e.g. the UK OGL allows relicensing
under CCBY 3.0 or ODC BY)

All the best,
pRo

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Svein-Magnus Sørensen <sveins at tihlde.org>wrote:

> The rationale for a Norwegian license is partly explained in this blog post
> and its comments:
> http://data.norge.no/blogg/2010/08/en-klausulbuffet-av-vilkar/ (in
> Norwegian)
>
> In summary the CC and PDDL licenses lack provisions for accessibility and
> delivery, and the licenses must also be in line with current Norwegian law
> which is somewhat different from that in other countries.
>
> mvh.
> Svein-Magnus Sørensen
>
> S +47 913 04 810  ~  sveins at tihlde.org
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: euopendata-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:euopendata-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Peter Krantz
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:24 PM
> To: euopendata
> Subject: [euopendata] Government Open data Licenses - reasons for rolling
> your own?
>
> Hi!
>
> At least two countries (UK nad Norway) have, or are in the process of,
> creating a national license for open government data re-use [1][2].
> This contributes to license proliferation considering that there seem
> to be many similar existing licenses (e.g. CC or Open Database
> License). Does anyone have any pointers to background material that
> explains the rationale for creating your own license instead of using
> existing licenses?
>
> Also, it is likely that existing legislation already covers re-use of
> government data in many scenarios. How do these licenses fit into
> existing legal frameworks?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> [1]: UK:
>
> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-governme
> nt-licence.htm<http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-governme%0Ant-licence.htm>
> [2]: Norway:
>
> http://data.norge.no/blogg/2010/11/oppdrag-2-norsk-standardlisens-for-tilgan
> g-til-offentlige-data/<http://data.norge.no/blogg/2010/11/oppdrag-2-norsk-standardlisens-for-tilgan%0Ag-til-offentlige-data/>
>
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