Thanks for the input!
On 04/06/2014 07:26 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 6 April 2014 17:45, Paul Hänsch paul@fsfe.org wrote:
I cannot tell, how this applies to questions of open data. If there is an open data definition, which ensures similar freedoms, then you have a path of reasoning here.
There's a Free Content definition, http://freedomdefined.org/Definition by Erik Moeller of Wikimedia, and endorsed by Wikimedia. I'm not sure it quite covers this.
It may not be easy to convince the government agency to give up this clause. I suspect they intend to prevent circumvention of national data protection laws.
That's a usage restriction, so I suspect it would fail.
Open Data is normally supposed to follow the Open Definition:
I suppose it would mostly fall foul of #8: Discrimination against "fields of endeavor".
The definition does not state as clearly as the Free Software Definition that the data can be used for any purpose.