[od-discuss] Fwd: Conformance - Open Government License - Surrey 1.0

Fri Feb 13 20:06:18 UTC 2015

Great news! Looks compliant to me upon quick read-through.

On 02/13/2015 11:58 AM, Herb Lainchbury wrote:
> The City of Surrey has modified their license in response to our
> letter.  See below.
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> They have incorporated our recommendation to remove an exemption and
> they have also incorporated one of our two suggestions.
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> The suggestion that they didn't incorporate, which we said was not
> strictly required for conformance, is making their license re-usable by
> others.
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> Herb
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Simpson, Sean* <STSimpson at surrey.ca <mailto:STSimpson at surrey.ca>>
> Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:01 AM
> Subject: RE: Conformance - Open Government License - Surrey 1.0
> To: Herb Lainchbury <herb at dynamic-solutions.com
> <mailto:herb at dynamic-solutions.com>>
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> Thank you Herb, please have a look at our updated License____
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> http://data.surrey.ca/pages/open-government-licence-surrey____
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> It is now similar to OGL Canada, without the reference to ‘records’ that
> OGL – Newfoundland/Labrador still has included.____
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> Cheers,____
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> SEAN SIMPSON | GIS MANAGER
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> *CITY OF SURREY____*
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> 13450 104th Ave, Surrey, BC, Canada V3T 1V8
> T 604.591.4730 <tel:604.591.4730> | www.surrey.ca
> <http://www.surrey.ca/>  ____
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> *From:*herb.lainchbury at gmail.com <mailto:herb.lainchbury at gmail.com>
> [mailto:herb.lainchbury at gmail.com <mailto:herb.lainchbury at gmail.com>]
> *On Behalf Of *Herb Lainchbury
> *Sent:* February-06-15 2:46 PM
> *To:* Simpson, Sean
> *Subject:* Conformance - Open Government License - Surrey 1.0____
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> Dear Mr. Simpson____
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> I am contacting you today on behalf of the Open Definition Advisory
> Council, regarding a request we received on November 4, 2013 to review
> the Open Government License - Surrey version 1.0 for conformance to the
> Open Definition <http://opendefinition.org/>.____
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> We feel that the license cannot be considered conformant with the Open
> Definition.____
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> Please find attached a letter which explains this decision and the
> recommendations of the Open Definition Advisory Council should you wish
> to use a conformant license.____
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> Thank you for your consideration.____
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> Herb Lainchbury____
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> Chair, Open Definition Advisory Council____
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