[open-development] Licensing of Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets from United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)

[Andrej Verity]

Dear Tim,

The focal point for HXL (and involved in the COD/FOD project) is CJ Hendrix
who is copied here.

FYI: although CJ can elaborate, the licensing around CODs is painfully
complicated & complex  [and is largely out of our control]

Kind regards,
Andrej

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Information Services Branch (ISB)
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Tim Davies <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk
> wrote:

> Hello Jonathan,
>
> The team involved in HXL - Humanitarian Exchange Language (
> http://hxl.humanitarianresponse.info/) - at UNOCHA might have some
> insights into this. It's possible the COD data might be feeding into HXL at
> some level.
>
> I'm not sure what the licensing around HXL is, or how much focus there has
> been on this.
>
> It might be useful to think about what the case is for a change in license
> from the perspective of UNOCHA. What would a more open license enable that
> serves the needs of the humanarian community? It could be useful for us to
> be able to put the case from this perspective...
>
> All the best
>
> Tim
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> I wonder whether anyone knows anyone working on the United Nations Office
>> for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)'s Common and
>> Fundamental Operational Datasets project [1]?
>>
>> It looks like a very interesting and useful project, and a shame that the
>> data doesn't appear to be openly licensed [2].
>>
>> [1] http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/about
>> [2] http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/terms-use
>>
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