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

Sat May 3 13:02:28 UTC 2014

Don't know a good example I'm afraid
Op 3 mei 2014 14:58 schreef "Stéphane Guidoin" <stephane at opennorth.ca>:

> 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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