[od-discuss] [open-government] OGL-Canada proposal feedback from the Open Definition Advisory Council

Fri Feb 1 19:37:20 UTC 2013

On 13-02-01 07:21 AM, Baden Appleyard wrote:
> Id be curious to know from anyone involved... were the Creative 
> Commons licences, or the CC-BY licence, ever discussed as likely 
> candidates for use by the Canadian Government.
CC licenses were definitely brought to the attention of the Canadian 
government and proposed as a solution by myself and others; however, I 
don't think they ever came as close as being "likely candidates". From 
the limited feedback I was able to get, the issue is not so much a 
problem with any particular term in CC licences but rather the 
government's desire to maintain control of the licence.

>
> I must admit to concerns about continuing 'open licence' proliferation.
Absolutely.  Moreover, even though the responsible Minister stated that 
this licence is supposed to be compatible with CC, I'm not 100% 
convinced it actually achieves this (further details here for anyone 
who's interested: 
http://www.creativecommons.ca/en/open-government-canada-licence).

Kent
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