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

Fri Feb 13 19:58:19 UTC 2015

The City of Surrey has modified their license in response to our letter.
See below.

They have incorporated our recommendation to remove an exemption and they
have also incorporated one of our two suggestions.

The suggestion that they didn't incorporate, which we said was not strictly
required for conformance, is making their license re-usable by others.

Herb

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From: Simpson, Sean <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>

 Thank you Herb, please have a look at our updated License

http://data.surrey.ca/pages/open-government-licence-surrey

It is now similar to OGL Canada, without the reference to ‘records’ that
OGL – Newfoundland/Labrador still has included.

Cheers,

SEAN SIMPSON | GIS MANAGER

 *CITY OF SURREY*

13450 104th Ave, Surrey, BC, Canada V3T 1V8
T 604.591.4730 | www.surrey.ca

*From:* 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

Dear Mr. Simpson

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/>.

We feel that the license cannot be considered conformant with the Open
Definition.

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.

Thank you for your consideration.

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Herb Lainchbury

Chair, Open Definition Advisory Council

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