I'm not sure what this has to do with Wikidata, but since the topic was
brought up, why did they feel the need to invent a new license? I'm not
sure I'd consider their license "open" despite its name since, although the
original license grant is perpetual and they allow redistribution, they
withhold sublicensing rights and require people receiving redistributions
to get their own license directly from Statistics Norway. This effectively
means that redistributions aren't guaranteed to be granted licenses in
perpetuity since they could decide to stop granting licenses whenever they
want.
In addition to making it impossible for anyone to build a commercial
information production with, it probably also means that the data can't be
used in Wikidata. (Well, actually even the attribution requirement is in
conflict with Wikidata's CC0).
Tom
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:00 PM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At Statistics Norway (SSB) there is a service called
"StatBank Norway"
("Statistikkbanken").[1][2] For some time it has been possible to access
this through an open API, serving JSON-stat.[4] Now they open up all the
remaining access and all 5000 tables will be made available.[3]
SSB use NLOD,[5][6] an open license on their published data. (I asked them
and all they really want is the source to be clearly given so to avoid
falsified data.)
[1]
https://www.ssb.no/en/statistikkbanken
[2]
https://www.ssb.no/en/informasjon/om-statistikkbanken/how-to-use-statbank-n…
[3]
http://www.ssb.no/omssb/om-oss/nyheter-om-ssb/ssb-gjor-hele-statistikkbanke…
(Norwegian)
[4]
https://json-stat.org/
[5]
http://www.ssb.no/en/informasjon/copyright
[6]
http://data.norge.no/nlod/en/1.0
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