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

[Dan R. Greening]

Josh and pals,

I just want to give my thanks to you for working on these issues.  We  
are also working with aggregated data that we want to provide free  
for non-profit use, but want many of these liability issues  
addressed, and also (of course) want for-profit uses to compensate us  
so we can keep the lights on.

Having a framework where we can just refer to a CC-Geo-NP (Creative  
Commons Geography Non-Profit Use) license or some such thing would be  
a great benefit.  I'm sure that's true for lots of folks.

Dan R. Greening, Ph.D.,  CEO BigTribe Corporation,  http:// 
dan.greening.name/contact.htm


On Oct 13, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Josh at oklieb wrote:

>
> On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Not assumed, but there are almost always conditions of use. US and  
> Canada are very concerned about the conditions of use even when  
> they distribute data without charge. Liability and all that.  
> Expressing those conditions has just been rather haphazard and not  
> supported explicitly by the OGC Web Services framework up until now  
> (outside of a metadata tag in the WMS capabilities).
>
>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>
> The idea is to have a common framework for both referencing and  
> agreeing to a machine-readable license expression. Stamping a  
> website with a Creative Commons logo is one approach, but not  
> always the most appropriate, particularly with the variety of ways  
> in which one can process and represent geodata.
>
>>
>> Andrew
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