[od-discuss] OD conformant proposal: Open Government Licence v3.0

Tue Oct 21 16:01:15 UTC 2014

Yes, thank you Andrew.  On it's way.

Herb

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Andrew Stott <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com>
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> Herb
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> Do you want to call for a vote please?
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> Regards
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> Andrew
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> *From:* Ellis, Jo [mailto:Jo.Ellis at nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk]
> *Sent:* 21 October 2014 14:10
> *To:* 'Andrew Stott'; 'od-discuss at lists.okfn.org'
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> *Subject:* RE: [od-discuss] OD conformant proposal: Open Government
> Licence v3.0
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> Thanks Andrew, I have nothing to add to your excellent summary.
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> Regards
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> Jo
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> *From:* Andrew Stott [mailto:andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com
> <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com>]
> *Sent:* 21 October 2014 11:37
> *To:* Ellis, Jo; od-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* RE: [od-discuss] OD conformant proposal: Open Government
> Licence v3.0
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> Just to make sure that we follow our own process, could you confirm that
> the following is an accurate representation of the case for approval of OGL
> v3 please, or make any amendments?
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> Regards
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> 1.  State the rationale for the new license.
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> This is an update to UK OGL v2.  The principal change is to clarify how
> the licensee should implement attribution statements.  This is necessary in
> order to bring under the OGL certain UK Government datasets in which the
> attribution statements need to be precisely handled, for instance because
> of third-party rights
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> 2.  Explain whether the license may be used by any licensor, or is
> specific to an organization/place/jurisdiction. We generally frown on the
> latter (see proliferation below), only making politically expedient
> exceptions (eg, the organization is a national government; and these are
> categorized as “non-reusable”).
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> Like its predecessors, the licence is intended principally for information
> providers in the UK Public Sector and contains some specific exceptions and
> definitions for this purpose.
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> 3.  Compare and contrast to the most similar approved as OD-conformant
> licenses.
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> OGL v3 is similar to OGL v2.  The principal change is the language on
> attribution statements.
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> 4.  Explain the benefit the new license brings over already approved
> OD-conformant licenses which would outweigh the costs of license
> proliferation? (Link is re software licenses, but the same principles and
> costs apply.)
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> The provisions on attribution statements in OGL v3 will allow more UK
> public sector data to be published under the OGL itself, rather than under
> some of the data-specific licences currently used to ensure completeness of
> attribution statements.  The new provisions are also intended to allow
> users who use data from multiple providers, such as Open Street Map, to
> have a practical and light-weight means of meeting the attribution
> statement requirements in their use of OGL-licensed information.
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> 5.  Identify which recommended conformant licenses the new license is
> compatible with, and how – by alignment (permissions identical or a
> superset of existing license, conditions identical or a subset) and/or
> express permission to license the original and/or adaptations of the
> licensed work under an existing license.
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> These terms are compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution License
> 4.0 and the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
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> 6. Provide a link to any public drafting process (e.g., conducted on a
> public communication forum of some sort; multiple drafts presented to that
> forum) for the license.
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> There has been public discussion of the drafting on
> https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2014-September/001014.html .
> Multiple drafts have been present in that forum and changes suggested by
> others have been adopted.
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> *From:* od-discuss [mailto:od-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> <od-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org>] *On Behalf Of *Ellis, Jo
> *Sent:* 21 October 2014 11:04
> *To:* 'od-discuss at lists.okfn.org'
> *Subject:* Re: [od-discuss] OD conformant proposal: Open Government
> Licence v3.0
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> Following comments from Diane and Andrew on Friday I have made some
> further amendments to the draft OGLv3.0 at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C3jPK5U61GU6hMmrEQHJ-TuC8MVPn8ngodlexlQsuRk/edit?usp=sharing
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> The first paragraph of the attribution requirement section now reads:
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> “… by including *or linking to *any attribution statement specified by
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> I've had confirmation offline from Diane that she is content with that
> from an OGL/CC-BY alignment point of view.
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> I look forward to hearing from you all.
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