Those following the post a few weeks ago about the
announcement by the
Australian Bureau of Statistics that they were going to release their
material under a Creative Commons licence will be pleased to know that
it's happened.
All content on the ABS website (other than logos and other trade
marked content) is now marked as CC BY - including all census data,
economy data, fact sheets, analysis, press releases etc.
Hopefully this will just be the start of a general move towards open
access by the Australian public sector.
This is a great move by the ABS! Free content is better for society in
both the long and the short term. As I live in Australia, I'd now I'd
like to see Linux being used widely by the Australian Government and
in schools across the country ...
—Thomas Larsen