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bcgov / bcgovr

An R package to automate set up and sharing of R projects in bcgov GitHub following bcgov guidelines
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data licenses #9

Closed MonkmanMH closed 6 years ago

MonkmanMH commented 7 years ago

It would be handy if data licenses were added as options (and not necessarily mutually exclusive options, at that). Particular favourites are

stephhazlitt commented 7 years ago

A nice feature suggestion @MonkmanMH. At this time there is get_data_licence() in the envreportutils package for adding urls to both of those examples (but not the LICENSE file itself). Perhaps we could add to that one and import it to bcgovr?

ateucher commented 7 years ago

@MonkmanMH do you a mean a LICENSE file for each of those licenses that you would put in a data folder?

stephhazlitt commented 6 years ago

@MonkmanMH Did you have a chance to look at envreportutils::get_data_licence? It returns a url, or a markdown or html-formatted link to one of several B.C. or Canadian licences:

ateucher commented 6 years ago

After some discussion, we're not going to add the ability to add the data licenses as it is too easy to get wrong. I.e., for a user not experienced with how the OGL-BC works, it would be easy to just add the license to their repo that contains data, without having gone through the open data checklist and making sure there is a corresponding record in the BC Data Catalogue (as required by the license). We will add some documentation about how to deal with data licenses.