Difference between revisions of "Data and CC licenses"

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This is a list of uses CC licenses for data. For uses of CC0 public domain dedication for data, see CC0 use for data.

government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - Australian Bureau of Statistics, Geoscience Australia and the still beta data.australia.gov.au - are all licensed by default under CC BY 2.5 Australia and/or CC BY 3.0 Australia . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The ABS and Geoscience Australia have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the Mashup Australia competition run by Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce.
- over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
Powerhouse Museum - releases a large range of material under CC, including its photo of the day, downloadable pdfs from its Play program and the museum's general collection information and data.

http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive

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 ===New Zealand===
+* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has been released under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website  - http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets
 ===Poland===
 ===Spain===