[od-discuss] Status of Vancouver and Surrey OGL varients

Sun Nov 16 01:25:07 UTC 2014

"at a process level another option is to simply not consider
non-reusable, sub-national
licenses for approval at all"

I think we should consider this if at some point we feel we inundated by
"one off" license approval requests.  Since non-government organizations
publish open data we could also encounter requests to review licenses
developed by organizations which may be considered too obscure to spend
time on.  Would we only consider multi-nationals?  I doubt it.  Another
approach we could consider is a demand model rather than a
size-of-publisher model.  We could say, to be considered at all a license
review needs to be requested by at least N parties.  Right now, N is 1.

Herb

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Kent Mewhort <kent at openissues.ca> wrote:

> On 14-11-15 03:08 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > I think if I had understood that I might have proposed only approving
> > OGL-Canada if assigned to some new sub-basement of "other" approved
> > licenses, not only non-reusable a la OGL UK, but non-reusable by other
> > levels of government. And while they're presumably compliant,
> > provincial and then municipal levels of licenses each with minor
> > changes...just ridiculous! I'm not certain what to do with this
> > feeling, so I'll sit back, let others discuss, and probably
> > irresponsibly abstain from the eventual approval vote.
> In the interest of not condoning license proliferation, at a process
> level another option is to simply not consider non-reusable,
> sub-national licenses for approval at all (it might be wise to include
> national licenses in this bag as well, but that ship has already
> sailed).  Perhaps these licenses are compliant and perhaps not, but we
> simply wouldn't review them as a matter of procedure.
>
> Kent
>
> P.S. sorry for being relatively absent on this lately, I've been busy
> with lot's of other things!
>
>
>
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