Geodata Licensing Working Group

This is a project started by the Public Geospatial Data Committee

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 PGL.

Participants

• Jo Walsh
• Schuyler Erle
• Perry Nacionales (Jo and Schuyler need company :)
• your name here

Existing and related projects

• Geodata Commons
• Open Knowledge Definition survey of open license stances, a superset of this effort.

Geodata Licenses

• Public Geodata License
• Group PGL-Canada
• Creative Commons

References

• Public Geodata License - French version, and cooperative website for license writing
• OpenStreetmap Legal FAQ
• Public Commons of Geographic Data - Research and Development Challenges (PDF) - discusses IP issues
• Licensing Geographic Data and Services - book with some sample PDFs - cf Section 3, Chapter 9

See Also

• Geodata Packaging Working Group
• Geodata Discovery Working Group