Friday, 19 December 2008

Australian Bureau of Statisics moves to Creative Commons License

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is poised to introduce Creative Commons [Attribution] licensing for the bulk of the [ABS] content ...
Read the rest of the story here.

This is inline with a national trend to move toward Creative Commons, being spearheaded by Queensland University of Technology. (old presentation here).
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