Geodata Licensing Working Group

This is a project of 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

Existing and related projects

• 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
• OpenStreetmap Legal FAQ

See Also

• Geodata Packaging Working Group
• Geodata Discovery Working Group