[euopendata] Study says charge for public data...

Thu Jan 13 12:10:22 UTC 2011

On 01/13/2011 12:43 PM, Paola Di Maio wrote:
> Open data advocates come in different flavours. Not every Open data 
> advocate is keen to foster private enterprise flourish on the back of 
> tax payers money
I'm sorry, but I don't think this is the relevant point. Non-Commercial 
restrictions, for instance, exclude the possibility of re-using the 
released material in Wikipedia (or any other project using a license 
such a CC BY-SA or CC BY): this is far from being a problem of private 
enterprise free-riding on taxpayers' money.
> If the data is used for commercial purposes (ie, to generate revenues) 
> I dont see why private commercial firms benefiting for their own 
> profits (to which I do not object) should not contribute to the 
> government effort (spending) for publishing the data in the first place.
Marco Ricolfi explained this better than I can do:
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/guest_blogs/re_use_licenses_commercial_or_non_commercial_this_is_the_question

Or, to put it shortly, I'm really convinced that open really means open 
as in the open knowledge definition... otherwise, it's not really open 
at the end of the day ;-)

Best,

Federico