OGL Canada and local variants

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The following licences have been officially deemed compatible, after review by the LWG. Other variants may also be deemed compatible. Please contact us to request review of a particular licence.

As background, Canada has had various open government data licensing schemes in its history, with varying names. In addition, localities often adapt a version of the federal or provincial licence and make tweaks, some inconsequential, others that potentially make the licence incompatible. Confusingly, different names (Open Government Licence and Open Data Licence) have been used for licences that are in essence the same base licence, as well as for licence with substantial differences, making it difficult to determine universal compatibility.

LWG's practice is to review for compatibility on a licence by licence basis. However, generally speaking, if the only change to the licence from the federal version a change to the locality, the licence is likely compatible. You can run a diff and request that LWG approve (which will then get added to the list below).

Note: All of these licences require attribution. Before importing Canada open data, check to make sure the data source you are using is listed appropriately at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Canada with the appropriate attribution.

This list is work in process and will be updated as more information becomes available.

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