[od-discuss] SPDX Fwd: Re: New License/Exception Request

Thu Jun 11 04:31:55 UTC 2015

I said I'd reach out to SPDX a very long time ago, finally did, below FWIW.

Anyone have references to OGLs in jurisdictions outside of UK, Canada,
and South Korea?

Mike

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: New License/Exception Request
Date: 	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:20:52 -0700
From: 	Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com>
To: 	J Lovejoy <opensource at jilayne.com>
CC: 	SPDX-legal <spdx-legal at lists.spdx.org>

The two previous UK versions:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/1/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/

Canada federal versions
http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada (2.0; would have
to look for 1.0)

Provincial (example, several)
http://data.alberta.ca/licence

Municipal (example, many)
http://data.surrey.ca/pages/open-government-licence-surrey

I believe there are a bunch of others but don't have references handy
and am mostly failing at search, other than Korea, which has several
variations, one of them http://www.kogl.or.kr/open/info/license_info/by.do

I'd be happy to join a call in July to discuss.

Mike

On 06/10/2015 03:20 PM, J Lovejoy wrote:
> HI Mike,
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Regarding the other versions of OGL, could you provide links to those?
> 
> As for non-software licenses and the project mentioned below, could I
> ask you to join an SPDX Legal call in order to discuss, perhaps one of
> the calls in July?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jilayne
> 
> SPDX Legal Team co-lead
> opensource at jilayne.com <mailto:opensource at jilayne.com>
> 
> 
>> On Jun 6, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com
>> <mailto:ml at gondwanaland.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/05/2015 02:33 AM, Matt Smith wrote:
>>> 1.     Provide a proposed Full Name for the license or exception.
>>> *Open Government License*
>>>  
>>> 2.     Provide a proposed Short Identifier.
>>> *OGL*
>>
>> I'm not sure it should matter for SPDX but noting that there are two
>> previous versions of the OGL from the UK and now many other OGLs from
>> other jurisdictions. OGL-3.0 or OGL-UK or OGL-UK-3.0 would address one
>> of both of those.
>>
>> I actually joined this list because I eventually intended to ask
>> whether SPDX is interested in including additional licenses not
>> primarily intended for software (it includes some now) such as various
>> OGLs. Seems like a good prompt to finally do that. :)
>>
>> My reason for asking is that I'm involved in opendefinition.org
>> <http://opendefinition.org/> sort of a non-software analogue to the
>> OSD. The OD project has made some half-hearted attempts to collect
>> license texts and metadata but it'd be more effective to feed into a
>> better maintained project, ie SPDX. One completed
>> issue https://github.com/okfn/licenses/issues/35 and another stale
>> one https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/issues/27 as confusing
>> background for this.
>>
>> If there's interest from SPDX I or someone else involved in OD would
>> propose for inclusion in SPDX those licenses OD as approved but which
>> are not currently in SPDX, see http://opendefinition.org/licenses/
>>
>> Mike
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