Question about free licenses

[David Gerard]

On 6 April 2014 17:45, Paul Hänsch <paul at 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.


- d.