[open-government] OGL-Canada proposal feedback from the Open Definition Advisory Council

Fri Feb 1 06:21:28 UTC 2013

Id be curious to know from anyone involved... were the Creative Commons
licences, or the CC-BY licence, ever discussed as likely candidates for use
by the Canadian Government.

If so, what were the reasons cited that made them unsuitable?

I must admit to concerns about continuing 'open licence' proliferation.

We have largely resolved initial concerns propounded by government lawyers
about CC licences and their use by government.

Cheers

b

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On 1 February 2013 12:04, Toby Mendel <toby at law-democracy.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Adopting an Open Government Licence is one of the two foundational
> commitments in the Canadian OGP Action Plan, adopted in April 2012
> (available at:
> http://www.opengovpartnership.org/sites/www.opengovpartnership.org/files/country_action_plans/Canada%27s%20Action%20Plan%20on%20Open%20Government%20-%20Plan%20d%27action%20du%20Canada%20sur%20le%20gouvernement%20ouvert_0.pdf
> )
>
> Specifically, the Action Plan states:
>
> "Open Government License: To support the Directive and reduce the
> administrative burden of managing multiple licensing regimes across the
> Government of Canada, we will issue a new universal Open Government License
> in Year 1 of our Action Plan with the goal of removing restrictions on the
> reuse of published Government of Canada information (data, info, websites,
> publications) and aligning with international best practices. In developing
> this new license we will also coordinate with other OGP members to allow
> more seamless collaboration across borders. The purpose of the new Open
> Government License will be to promote the re-use of federal information as
> widely as possible. It is our goal that federal departments will have
> adopted this new universal Open Government License by the end of Year 2 of
> the Action Plan."
>
>
> So this is all very relevant indeed to our assessment of Canada's Action
> Plan and the implementation thereof.
>
> Toby
>
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> On 31 Jan 2013, at 20:27, michael gurstein wrote:
>
> > Thanks very much Mike and that does provide a very useful context...
> >
> > I'm not seeing a direct link to our task of doing a review of the Open
> > Government Partnership commitments (Canada) but maybe others could see a
> > connection.
> >
> > M
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mlinksva at gmail.com [mailto:mlinksva at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mike
> > Linksvayer
> > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:54 PM
> > To: michael gurstein
> > Cc: Open Government WG List; od-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> > Subject: Re: [open-government] OGL-Canada proposal feedback from the Open
> > Definition Advisory Council
> >
> > I'm not sure what the OGP-C review is. Open Government Partnership?
> > Would love to know how it fits...
> >
> > Re the OGL-C feedback, a bit more background:
> >
> > PSI licenses created by governments seem to be a growing trend last few
> > years, usually with some problematic terms. OGL-UK is probably the
> highest
> > profile one, and perhaps most interesting from an Open Knowledge
> Definition
> > perspective, as it is clearly intended to be open, but nevertheless has
> > problematic terms that we hope to eventually see corrected, and not
> > propagated into licenses from other governments.
> >
> > There's been discussion of these issues over the last couple years in a
> > number of places, but two quick links are
> > http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2011-December/thread.html#84
> > (continues in next 3 months' archives) and section 7 of
> >
> http://epsiplatform.eu/content/topic-report-no-23-creative-commons-and-publi
> > c-sector-information-flexible-tools-support-psi
> > which covers OGL and related issues, with footnotes.
> >
> > OGL-C (based on OGL-UK) feedback period was noted at
> >
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/2012-December/002495.html
> > with substantial discussion at
> > http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2012-December/thread.html#233
> >
> > Link I sent is summary of feedback discussed last month, also submitted
> to
> > the OGL-C feedback site.
> >
> > I hope above counts as a bit of context, but please tell me if it doesn't
> > make sense. :)
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:56 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Hi Mike,
> >>
> >> Maybe others are more up to date but I wonder if you could provide a
> >> bit of context on this and also how/if it might fit into the OGP-C
> >> review. Is this an item that should be noted at all?
> >>
> >> Tks
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> >> [mailto:open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Mike
> >> Linksvayer
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 1:44 PM
> >> To: Open Government WG List; od-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> >> Subject: [open-government] OGL-Canada proposal feedback from the Open
> >> Definition Advisory Council
> >>
> >> http://opendefinition.org/2013/01/31/ogl-canada-proposal-feedback/
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
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