[open-government] [Civic Commons] Yes, Microsoft OGDI is open source

Thu Jul 21 07:33:58 UTC 2011

Indeed - the software for OGDI is open source. Perhaps Rufus was
thinking of the Azure service - and whether on not this is a fully
open service?

http://www.opendefinition.org/software-service/

Either way this does seem to be incorrectly labelled, and I'm glad
you've corrected it.

We have a guest blog post from a Microsoft representative in the
pipeline soliciting for feedback on their Terms of Use. I'll ping the
list when it is up!

J.

On Thursday, July 21, 2011, Philip Ashlock <phil at openplans.org> wrote:
> I was looking over the edit history for the Data Platforms Survey (an open google doc) on the Data Platforms page of the wiki (http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Data_Platform) and noticed that the Yes/No field for whether a project was open source had been changed from Yes to No for Microsoft OGDI.
>
> I figured it was worth making a point to change that back and comment on it as to dispel the assumption and stereotype. Microsoft OGDI (Open Government Data Initiative) is in fact open source software released under the Microsoft Public License which is an OSI approved Open Source License.
>
> http://ogdi.codeplex.com/
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL
>
> I'm cross posting this to Civic Commons Discuss and the OKFN Open Gov list because the culprit is on one and not the other. Not that I'm going to name names, Rufus, ;)
>
> Not that I don't think CKAN is the leading open source player in this space, I just want us to be respectful and acknowledge that there's room for many in the ecosystem.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>

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