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New Zealand Gazetteer of official place names
http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/find-name/new-zealand-gazetteer-official-geographic-names/new-zealand-gazetteer-search-place-names#zoom=0&lat=-41.14127&lon=172.5&layers=BTTT
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review source code license #39

Closed SPlanzer closed 4 years ago

SPlanzer commented 4 years ago

Review and ensure the repo has a license and it follows LINZ and government licensing best practice

SPlanzer commented 4 years ago

This repo is currently open and a discuss around license is required

billgeo commented 4 years ago

Interesting that it is open. Not sure what value there is in that, but would be interested to know.

palmerj commented 4 years ago

This may be an issue as the project redistributes geoalchemy that is MIT.

It not an issue if the licence is clearly stated in the files that are not BSD.

Interesting that it is open. Not sure what value there is in that, but would be interested to know.

Of course, it's best if government makes its source code open, unless there is a reason not to. But I think it's open because NZGB wanted to allow other international agencies to see it. We have opened up the website source code as well.

palmerj commented 4 years ago

If we want we can move this repos to MIT. That's the recommended licence for open source code in NZ now.

SPlanzer commented 4 years ago

If we want we can move this repos to MIT. That's the recommended licence for open source code in NZ now.

Great will do

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SPlanzer commented 4 years ago

Done