Guide to Public Geodata Licensing
This is an outline draft of what is intended to be a guide to open geodata licensing options and current precedents, written to help public administrations choose or design an open license for their data.
It is inspired by the Open Knowledge Foundation's Guide to Open Data Licensing.
Introduction
- Informative, not normative
- Collective and growing guidelines
Open License Concept
- OSI software licensing, open knowledge definition, etc.
Data Licensing Styles
Public Domain
Copyright
Attribution constraints
Non-Commercial constraints
(each summarised with pros and cons, references at the end)
Database Rights
Existing Open Licenses by Country
Canada
Denmark
Holland
Italy
Spain
References
- EDINA paper in particular
- highlights of OSM-legal-talk
- a lot of other mailing list posts, blog entries, etc