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aiddata / gcdf-geospatial-data

Repository for AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset (GeoGCDF)
https://aiddata.org/china
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Add a License #2

Closed sgoodm closed 3 years ago

sgoodm commented 3 years ago

Should we add a license to the repo?

Currently we do not have a license included with the repo, and I cannot find any instance of us formally included one with any data-related GitHub repos. Given the popularity of the China data, I think it would be worth formally defining a license even if it only is only to list the citation requirement and reaffirm the data is available for public use.

I think any of the open source licenses would probably be compatible with our existing intentions regarding data sharing/reuse, but we may want to run this by legal folks at W&M.

sgoodm commented 3 years ago

Using a dual license approach of ODC-By for the dataset and ODbL for the OSM features.