[od-discuss] Open Government License - Surrey 2.0

[Mike Linksvayer]

-1

Obviously per the text it is open. But I do not believe it is time[1] to
approve when the license steward and only possible licensor is
apparently confused about the license.

I fully expect to be outvoted, and acknowledge that I should have
replied to previous thread pre-call.

Mike

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSs6DcA6dFI



On 03/14/2015 01:54 PM, Herb Lainchbury wrote:
> I believe we've discussed the OGL Surrey v2.0 sufficiently to assess
> conformance.
> 
> In summary, we found the Open Government License - Surrey 1.0 to be
> non-conformant and sent a formal notice to the City of Surrey making one
> specific recommendation and two suggestions.  Within a few days they
> released a new version of their license adopting our recommendation and
> incorporating 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.
> 
> In our subsequent discussion there were comments about advice given
> concerning the license and whether or not that advice should be
> considered as part of the conformance process.  I believe we have
> settled on the idea that we have to assess the license based on what is
> written in it.
> 
> 
> I now request that advisory council members indicate whether they agree
> that the license conforms to section 2 of the open definition (v2.0)
> found here:
> 
> http://opendefinition.org/od/
> 
> 
> Please use +1 for agree and -1 for disagree.
> 
> 
> You can find a discussion here:
> https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2015-February/001278.html
> 
> and here:
> https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2015-March/001293.html
> 
> 
> You can find the text for the license here:
> 
> OGL Surrey v2.0
> http://data.surrey.ca/pages/open-government-licence-surrey
> 
> 
> We will continue counting votes for two weeks from now or until
> consensus is reached, which ever is first.
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
> 
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