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

Mon Mar 2 20:28:22 UTC 2015

On 2/26/2015 6:47 PM, Herb Lainchbury wrote:
> I have placed a copy of the revised Open Government License - Surrey 
> (City of Surrey, BC, Canada) into our /licenses/inreview repository.
>
> As noted in this thread they have adopted our recommendation and one 
> of our two suggestions.
>
> I intend to call for a vote on this new version (2.0) in in a few days.
Looking over my correspondence with Surrey, I believe the license still 
has a flaw which prevents conformance with 2.1.3.

There is general agreement that only information* by the City of Surrey 
can be licensed under the OGL - Surrey.

I was considering the case where I create a new work of information 
which is a mix of Surrey information and information I have created. The 
city told me that this would need to be licensed under the OGL - Surrey. 
The only problem is that not being the City of Surrey, I can't release 
information under their license.

This has in effect created a situation where you have a share-alike 
license which only one party can use.

2.1.3 requires that work allow the distribution of derivatives under the 
same terms, which you can't do here. It also does not allow derivatives 
under different terms.

* information as defined in the license