[od-discuss] v2.0dev Review Requested

Thu Jul 31 07:19:43 UTC 2014

On 7/30/2014 11:39 PM, Herb Lainchbury wrote:
> It is titled "Open Government License for public sector information", 
> and further down it states, "This licence does not grant you any right 
> to use the Information in a way that suggests any official status".  I 
> think if I were to publish my work under a license with that title, it 
> would suggest some official status.
>
> It may be correct that I could indeed use this license for my work, by 
> claiming I'm not the government, but I wouldn't do that.  In effect 
> this license is non-reusable to me as a data publisher, so I would 
> look for one I could use.

I never said it was a *good* license for reuse, just that it could be 
done. If you don't care about attribution it's probably no worse than 
some other little-used licenses as at least there is a moderate body of 
understanding on how OGL licensed data can be used.
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