[od-discuss] Move to non-conformant?!: UK PSI (Public Sector Information) Click-Use Licence (was no endorsement clauses and OKD conformance (was Re: Up and Coming: Open Government Licence in Canada (OGL-C)))

Tue Dec 11 20:50:50 UTC 2012

Moved to http://opendefinition.org/licenses/nonconformant/

Thanks additionally for the background info Rufus and Andrew.

Mike

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> +1 and it should be removed. I suspect this got in there before we had
> a thorough approval process.
>
> Rufus
>
> On 10 December 2012 20:59, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>>> Also the UK PSI click-use license
>>> http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ukpsi/ has a no-endorsement clause
>>> and is on the conformant list, but ought be removed for lots of other
>>> problems, whatever we decide about may-not-imply-endorsement:
>>>     "not use the Material for the principal purpose of advertising or
>>> promoting a particular product or service, or in a way which could
>>> imply that it is endorsed by a Department or a Public Sector
>>> Organisation;"
>>
>> I don't know how the UK PSI Click-Use Licence got on the conformant
>> list -- it has been there since at least
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20071227230454/http://opendefinition.org/licenses/
>> -- prior to any OD list archives.
>>
>> It is very clearly NOT conformant. A probably incomplete list of
>> clauses that make it so:
>>
>>     6. How the Material may be reproduced
>>
>> Does not grant permission to make any adaptation -- only translations
>> "by a competent translator" and conversion to formats for the vision
>> impaired. Not conformant with OKD #3.
>>
>> Nearly every point in the Obligations section is problematic. Some are
>> odd for a public license (which this tries not to be), so I'll just
>> note the problematic ones that have been discussed recently regarding
>> UK OGL -- may-not-imply-endorsement and do-not-mislead:
>>
>>     9.6 not use the Material for the principal purpose of advertising
>> or promoting a particular product or service, or in a way which could
>> imply that it is endorsed by a Department or a Public Sector
>> Organisation;
>>
>>     9.7 not use the Material in any way that is likely to mislead others;
>>
>> Of course the first part of 9.6 is also non-conformant with OKD#8.
>>
>>
>> Can I get a couple +1's on moving this to non-conformant with the
>> above rationale?
>>
>> Mike
>>
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