Hello,
I'm currently doing some research about the best way(s) to publish open
data for a local administration. For many of the data they wish/can
publish the license question is quite straightforward, but there's one
database which raises much questions. I try to expose the problem as
simply as possible:
1-the database : shape files with routes and POI about a region.
2-the context : the administration makes some money selling a walking
guide using those informations
3-the aim : opening those data so that eventual reuses will publish
correct information about pathes, dangers, etc.
4-the dilemma : open publishing those information may serve any
competitor editor to build a competiting guide upon those data
5-the question : how licensing could help preventing such an usage while
welcoming more friendly reuses such as : a promotional guide for hiking
in the area that would reuse some of the data for the sake of promotion.
*4b : let's assume that the dilemma is real. I mean : the risk may not
ba as big as their fears, but this is not my point here.
Licences evaluated, and the point where I am :
- Open Licence (https://wiki.data.gouv.fr/images/0/05/Open_Licence.pdf),
or CC-BY : welcomes *every* reuse, so won't solve the dilemma.
- CC-BY-NC : may sound appropriate, but : non free (I'd dislike very
much ending up in recommending a non-free license), would prevent some
legitime reuses (let's imagine that the promotional guide has anything
to do with a commercial use)
- CC-BY-SA : this is the way I'd choose for :
- it's free
- the constraint introduced is only reclaiming openness
- it may solve the dilemma, but can you help me answer following
questions ?
Let's assume the competitor wants to use the shape files under CC-BY-SA
along with a closed base map bought from a vendor to have a nice looking
printed guide.
=> publishing such a reuse of the data seems to lead to a licences
conflict : the closed license would say something like "all rights
reserved, reproduction forbidden", where the CC-BY-SA part would claim
"any reuse of this data will be under this same license"
=> How to solve that ? If it' not solvable, this means that the
commercial reuse cases of the data opened under CC-BY-SA are quite a
complicated way, which I find a reasonable manner to solve the original
dilemma
Am I on the right way with my assumptions and questions ?
Michel Roche
Dear Fellows and Friends,
soon and once again will be Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg [1], from
December 27-30. This year, the FSFE will have an assembly [2] and we are happy
to invite you and your friends to pass by, get to know us or join our
activities. Details are not yet fixed, but you will find updates on the above
mentioned wiki-page. BTW: You will find us in the "noisy square" along with
other digital civil rights organisations like EDRi, Wauland, WeFixTheNet etc.
We are also looking for help by guys like you to give our assembly spirit,
live and attraction. If you like to offer a workshop, you like to represent
the booth or anything else you have in mind, then please (temporarily) join
our FSFE Hamburg-mailinglist or contribute in the pad:
https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/assembly31c3
(also easy to use for just putting your idea there)
I am looking forward to everyone that I get to know these days, as a visitor
or a helper.
Any questions? Please, feel free to ask
Best regards,
Erik
[1] http://events.ccc.de/category/31c3/
[2]
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_…
[3] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:Noisy_Square
[4] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/hamburg
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