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

Tue Oct 21 16:16:40 UTC 2014

I made grammatical edits to improve the readability and overall prose
without altering any substance.

Cheers,
Aaron

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Aaron Wolf
wolftune.com

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Herb Lainchbury <herb at dynamic-solutions.com
> wrote:

> Yes, thank you Andrew.  On it's way.
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> Herb
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> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Andrew Stott <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com>
> wrote:
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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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>> Jo:
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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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>> Andrew
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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
>> the Information Provider(s)”
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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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>> Jo
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