Public Geodata License
Abstract: The Public Geodata License initiative goal is to write and diffuse a free license for geographic datas.
Nowadays, networking and interoperabilty improvements, like Web Map Services, turns into new GIS architectures. In the same times, public, private, and social needs for geographic datas increase. So why not building with a specific license for geodatas the same benefits than the GPL license for software ? Cooperative GIS initiatives are now much easier, so they are much numerous. A specific license could help geomaticians, enterprises and administrations to trust into massive-GIS projects, and to contribute in the same ways than free softwares developpers do since many years. Because access to public geographic datas is not only a french problem, such a license may help many geomaticians worldwide.
This is the idea of the "PGL", Public Geodata License (In french, DGL, which mean "Données géographiques Libres". A "beta version" is available for improvements (at http://sig.cwiter.org/). A first release has bbeen projected for the end of year 2003.
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