[OSM-legal-talk] Is this license acceptable for a source?

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Jueves, 3 de Abril de 2008, Frédéric Brière escribió:
> > Moreover, depending on the canadian law, there is an easy workaround for
> > this license: you're explicitly granted all rights over any modifications
> > of the data. In certain jurisdictions, just converting the data to
> > another format is a modification. Do the math.
>
> Yeah, that *is* weird.  I wonder if their lawyers intended to say that.

This is common with all attribution-only licenses. Say, BSD and CC-by also 
have this "loophole".

In order to retain the attribution, the most common way is to enforce the 
application of the same kind of license. Think CC-by-sa and GPL.


And no, the lawyers didn't intend to say that. They want you too keep the 
attribution notices intact, of course. As I'm no expert on canadian copyright 
law, the safest thing to do, of course, is to keep the attribution intact.

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