Andrew Harvey

Please I would like to see public information licensed more appropriately. For starters I think any publications made by the government that are made public should have at least have use and re-use rights granted by a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia License or alike. Anything more than that such as Public Domain would also be acceptable by my standards. The government needs to do more to make information that really should belong to the public (such as government based spatial data (aerial imagery, road data, etc), census data, policy documents, Board of Studies Subject Syllabuses, etc) available to the public to redistribute, re-use, remix, resell, almost whatever they want. There should be no concern for say a document being altered in a way so that it is not what it seams, people know better, if they want to know its reliable they will go to the direct source.