All I was happy to discover the following today:
With the introduction of the Statistics Canada Open Licence on February 1, 2012, they were removed [list of data resellers and distributors], as our licence grants a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to:
· use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell the Information;
· use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell Value-added Products; and,
· sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this agreement.
The acknowledgment of source is as follows:
(a) You shall include and maintain the following notice on all licensed rights of the Information:
Source:
Statistics Canada, name of product, reference date. Reproduced and
distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics
Canada.
(b)
Where any Information is contained within a Value-added Product, you
shall include on such Value-added Product the following notice:
This covers all their data! It does not necessarily mean they are free. The exceptions to this licence are (
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/exceptions-eng):
Exceptions to the Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement
The Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement does not apply to the
following Statistics Canada products. Separate licence agreements are
used for the dissemination of these products.
- Public Use Microdata Files
- Postal CodeOM Conversion File
- Postal CodeOM Federal Ridings File
- Postal CodeOM Conversion File Plus
To obtain a copy of the licence agreement for any of these products, please Contact us.
Folks, go get some numbers from them!
Cheers
Tracey
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