[open-government] Share-alike

Fri Sep 16 23:44:37 UTC 2011

Hi Johnathan,

It seems like your city wants to discriminate against the innovator / 
entrepreneurial class.

Share-Alike has the effect of the author still trying to reserve its 
rights against commercialisation of its data.  (After all, the author 
itself doesn't *have* to SA, only the downstream users!)

Whereas non Share-Alike puts everyone on the same playing field for 
downstream value adding.

I'd be interested to know why SA was considered by the city in the first 
place.  It seems like cargo cult thinking.

However, full disclosure, I'm biased.  Our CommonMap initiative depends 
on liberally licensed works as contributions (i.e. CC By and public 
domain), but in turn it also allows full geodata roundtripping between 
government-crowd-commercial.

Other references: http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/the-ausgoal-licence-suite -
"Among those, the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) [...] 
provides the greatest opportunities for re-use of information"

And from my CommonMap FAQ: http://commonmap.org/faq#188n126 - "Why would 
I use CommonMap over OpenStreetMap?"

Brendan

On 17/09/2011 7:19 AM, Jonathan Brun wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am at MontrealOuvert.net <http://MontrealOuvert.net> and we are 
> happy to announce that Montreal will soon have an open-data policy and 
> portal. Generally speaking, it looks very promising, however, they are 
> planning to include a Share-alike clause in the licence.
>
> While we have some reservations about this, we would like your help to 
> formulate an argument on why this is not ideal. Please send us 
> comments, links and other information as soon as possible as the city 
> is looking to move fast.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jonathan
> MontrealOuvert.net <http://www.montrealouvert.net>
>
>
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