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This is a project of the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]]
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#REDIRECT [[Geodata Licensing]]
 
 
The right to reuse and redistribute publically accessible bodies of data needs to be clear. This group can help provide guidelines for public geodata licensing, both of community-contributed and state-collected bodies of data.
 
 
 
== Focus ==
 
 
 
* Provision of clear guidelines for licenses, and the implications of their uses, for people contributing data to geospatial web / GSDI efforts.
 
* Potential work on a draft LPGL license to complement the draft [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl/ PGL].
 
 
 
== Participants ==
 
 
 
* [[User:JoWalsh|Jo Walsh]]
 
* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
 
* ''your name here''
 
 
 
== Existing and related projects ==
 
 
 
* [http://www.okfn.org/wiki/OpenKnowledgeDefinition Open Knowledge Definition] survey of open license stances, a superset of this effort.
 
 
 
== Geodata Licenses ==
 
 
 
* [http://sig.cwriter.org/index.php/PGL Public Geodata License]
 
* [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl Group PGL-Canada]
 
* [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons]
 
 
 
== References ==
 
 
 
* [http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/pgl/ Public Geodata License]
 
* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Legal_FAQ OpenStreetmap Legal FAQ]
 
 
 
== See Also ==
 
 
 
* [[Geodata Packaging Working Group]]
 
* [[Geodata Discovery Working Group]]
 

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