[Open-transport] Semi-open (non free for commercial use) data

[Stéphane Guidoin]

Thanks guys

Yes, I like the idea around CC0 and SLAs and I also had this discussion
about the open511 where we are seeing that maintaining a good SLA on the
API could indeed represent a non-negligeable cost.

And I have the same point of view about non-commercial use. In any case, do
you know any actual case of 2-tier licence like that. I'd be curious to see
if/how they define what "non commercial" mean to see how large the grey
zone is.

Steph


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>wrote:

>  Hi Stéphane,
>
> It's way too hard to describe what "data available for non commercial use"
> actually means. If done in this way, you will end up with a license where
> every kind of reuse remains in the gray zone, and thus we cannot accept
> that.
>
> The best response I have found so far for data owners thinking in this
> direction is: You have to keep advertising yourself as the data
> owner/maintainer. Open Data is publishing all the (public) data you have,
> but... this comes without warranty. If data owners want a certain warranty,
> you can charge them for it. This is a better model than
> commercial/non-commercial use.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pieter
>
>
> On 2014-05-02 22:52, Stéphane Guidoin wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  Recently I was discussing with some transportation organization here in
> Canada that was weighting the option of semi-open data with a double
> licence allow free access for non-commercial use and fee based for
> commercial use.
>
>  The person I was discussing with said the some european organization are
> using that model but was not able to point some concrete example.
>
>  So questions to the wisdom of the group:
> - Does anybody have some example of two-tiers licences
> - If yes, does anybody had a look to the boundary of "commercial" (e.g
> does a web-app with some ads is commercial?).
>
>  To me the definition of "commercial" is not very well defined when it
> comes to open data.
>
>  Good week end!
>
>  Steph
>
>
>
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