[Geowanking] Fwd: [OGC Press Release] Mash-up event to unite leading minds from the geographic information industry

[Andrew Turner]

Josh at oklieb wrote:

> They also seem to be taking seriously and working at using OGC
> services to provide specific free or low-cost usage of their data, as
> distinct from "free for any use" delivery of entire datasets. This is
> a useful and appropriate connection with the concept of mashups. By
> the way, almost all data made accessible through OGC services and
> encodings has some rights reserved (e.g. attribution), however they
> are being regarded as "free and open".

This is assumed for all data sources?

>
> My disclaimer: I am working with OS and with OGC on what is called
> "GeoDRM" but which is actually a wide concept of rights management in
> the use and distribution of geodata, including such things as
> Creative Commons and GPL.
>

So this means there will be a way to specify the actual license under
which data is published and aggregated?

Andrew