[Geojson] Outstanding Issues?

[Allan Doyle]

I have bravely copied/pasted, and printed out the license. It says we  
can reproduce the spec but have to follow the copyright notice in the  
spec.

In the spec the copyright notice points you to a page on the OGC web  
site that does not exist.

However, the page you are redirected to has specific instructions on  
how to make and provide copies.

I'm game to follow those directions and post a version of that spec  
on the GeoJSON website. That way we lose the click-through and are  
good to go. We can link to our local copy.

I'm sure OGC could have made this easier, but their highly-paid legal  
eagles seem to be a bit out in left field.

	Allan


On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:11 , Jason Birch wrote:

> OK, I'm probably just feeling cranky this morning, but the click- 
> through
> license agreement on that link really annoyed me.
>
> Is there any way that somebody can see the contents of that
> specification without clicking through a license agreement?  Is the  
> use
> of the specification contingent on the acceptance of the license
> agreement?
>
> I hate the idea of "licensing" the right to make my data  
> interoperable.
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Daly
> Subject: Re: [Geojson] Outstanding Issues?
>
> Add (in Specification)?
>
> -----------------------------------
> 5. GeoJSON is intended for use as a software-to-software encoding for
> features and their geometry.  GeoJSON contains no definition of the
> meaning of the geometry constructs, nor any explicit or implicit rules
> on the 'validity' of the encoded geometry (other than that it must be
> encoded as described).  However, for maximum interoperability, it is
> recommended that the encoded geometry follow the definitions and rules
> of the OGC Implementation Specification for Geographic information -
> Simple features access - Part 1: Common architecture
> (http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=18241).
>
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