So my understanding is that the BC license is different - but all the others are the same. That is certainly the intention that they all be identical accept the title which references the jurisdiction. (again except BC which is frustrating).
Of course, now that there is a group of governments aligned around the license, you can send them feedback about how they could make them identical. I think they are interested in hearing this.
On Feb 20, 2014, at 2:05 PM, James McKinney <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Yes, they are different licenses.
>
> I just spoke to Kent Mewhort, who explained that there are other differences between the licenses. For example, BC [1] has an additional exemption which makes it a more problematic license: "This license does not grant you any right to use: (b) Information or Records not accessible under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (B.C.);". Ontario [2] has a similar exemption: "This licence does not grant you any right to use: (b) Information or Records not accessible under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Ontario);" Alberta [3] has its own vague exemption: "This licence does not grant you any right to use: (b) Information or Records that are not accessible under applicable laws;".
>
> The licenses, on the surface, look the same, but those one-line differences actually make the licenses quite complex, given that you need to know a fair amount about the referenced/imported legislation.
>
> 1. http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/local/dbc/docs/license/OGL-vbc2.0.pdf
> 2. http://www.ontario.ca/government/open-government-licence-ontario
> 3. http://data.alberta.ca/licence
>
>
> On 2014-02-20, at 10:12 AM, Gerry Tychon wrote:
>
>> Others may now better but I have felt that having a license that varies by a single word makes it, legally, a different license. So, if your were integrating data from different sources (all using their version of the Canadian Open Government License) you would have to reference each license individually.
>>
>>
>> On 20/02/2014 10:43 AM, James McKinney wrote:
>>> Canada's Open Government Licence [1] has been adapted by a number of cities and provinces - with the only difference being the name of the jurisdiction and the governing law clause. Cities include Guelph, Grande Prairie County No. 1, Nanaimo, Strathcona, Toronto (just looking at the licenses we use in Represent [2]).
>>>
>>> 1. http://data.gc.ca/eng/open-government-licence-canada
>>> 2. https://github.com/opennorth/represent-canada-data#readme
>>>
>>> With respect to the Quebec initiative, there is something comparable in Ontario:
>>>
>>> "Public Sector Open Data (PSOD)
>>> The Federal Government, Province of Ontario and City of Guelph are working with other Open Data municipalities in a group called PSOD to develop common processes and formats. The objectives of the PSOD are to develop standardization which allows for equal and easy access to public data."
>>>
>>> Sources:
>>> http://openguelph.wpengine.com/open-data-guelph/
>>> http://torontoist.com/2013/05/public-works-opening-up-our-data/
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> On 2014-02-20, at 6:03 AM, Stéphane Guidoin wrote:
>>>
>>>> The important point, from our point of view, is that all the bodies who publish open data in Quebec (province and 4 cities) have adopted the same generic license! Really good move.
>>>>
>>>> Stéphane
>>>>
>>>> Le 2014-02-20 08:45, Tracey P. Lauriault a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: Diane Mercier <[hidden email]>
>>>>> Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014
>>>>> Subject: Montréal disposera de la licence ouverte CC BY 4. Une pr emière au Canada en matières de données ouvertes. Un avantage pour les citoye première au Canada en matières de données ouvertes. Un avantage pour les citoyens
>>>>> To: OKFN-ca <[hidden email]>
>>>>> Cc: OKFN-francophone <[hidden email]>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Montréal est la première ville au Québec ayant utilisé les données
>>>>> ouvertes et dans la perspective de faire de la métropole une ville
>>>>> toujours plus intelligente et apprenante, le maire de Montréal, M.
>>>>> Denis Coderre, est fier d’annoncer que la Ville de Montréal souhaite
>>>>> adopter la licence ouverte CC BY 4 internationale de Creative
>>>>> Commons.
>>>>>
>>>>> La métropole, ainsi que les villes de Québec, Gatineau et Sherbrooke
>>>>> et le gouvernement du Québec qui emboîtent aussi le pas, unifieront
>>>>> leur licence de données ouvertes avec l’objectif de faciliter le
>>>>> partage des données selon des normes communes. Cette demande
>>>>> conjointe de normalisation de la part de quatre grandes villes et du
>>>>> gouvernement du Québec est une première au Canada et s’inscrit dans
>>>>> une tendance mondiale d’harmonisation des processus en matière de
>>>>> libération de données des administrations publiques. Il s’agit d’un
>>>>> tour de force qui stimulera les échanges entre la Ville et les
>>>>> Montréalais et les administrations publiques entre elles.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/un-avantage-pour-les-citoyens-montreal-disposera-de-la-licence-ouverte-cc-4-une-premiere-au-canada-en-matieres-de-donnees-ouvertes/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --- Médiation par | Curation by ---
>>>>> Dre Diane Mercier
>>>>>
>>>>> @okfnca | ca.okfn.org
>>>>> @_FACiL | facil.qc.ca
>>>>> @MTL_DO | donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca
>>>>> @carnetsDM | dianemercier.com
>>>>> http://about.me/dianemercier
>>>>> http://vizualize.me/oKvvtBkJXK?r=oKvvtBkJXK
>>>>>
>>>>> Webographie du libre :
>>>>> https://www.zotero.org/dmercier/items/order/dateModified/sort/desc
>>>>>
>>>>> « Pas de données ouvertes, sans logiciel libre ni formats ouverts »
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>>>>> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
>>>>> http://datalibre.ca/
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