Re: [License-discuss] OPEN Government Data Act signed into law in US

2019-01-17 Thread Sander van der Waal
*On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 16:34, Gil Yehuda via License-discuss > wrote:* > Sean, > > In trying to parse the legal definition in the sections you mentioned I > poked around to see if there is a data equivalent to the OSD ( > https://opensource.org/osd-annotated) or FSF's four freedoms to determine >

Re: [License-discuss] OPEN Government Data Act signed into law in US

2019-01-16 Thread Gil Yehuda via License-discuss
Sean, In trying to parse the legal definition in the sections you mentioned I poked around to see if there is a data equivalent to the OSD ( https://opensource.org/osd-annotated) or FSF's four freedoms to determine if the legal text matches it. I came across a few things that seemed to fit the bil

[License-discuss] OPEN Government Data Act signed into law in US

2019-01-15 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss
Relevant to the recent discussions about Government Open Source issues, the US federal government just signed the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act into law as part of HR4174 (Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act). More details at https://www.dataco