<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Grant Slater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@firefishy.com">openstreetmap@firefishy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 16 September 2010 19:29, Dave F. <<a href="mailto:davefox@madasafish.com">davefox@madasafish.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 16/09/2010 16:43, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> If it isn't will this mean previous traced/imported Opendata will have to<br>
>> be removed?<br>
>> If the incompatibilities in the licenses / CTs are not resolved before<br>
>> the OSM license change goes ahead, then as far as I can see, the only<br>
>> option would be to remove all OS OpenData derived mapping from OSM.<br>
><br>
> This saddens me.<br>
><br>
> I find it hard to conceive that members of OSM were lobbying the<br>
> OS/Government to release data for public use, whilst at the same time (by<br>
> the same people?) creating a new license that's incompatible with it.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>This clashes with the legal advice giving to the Licensing Working<br>
Group in that OS OpenData's license _is_ compatible with ODbL and the<br>
Contributor Terms. Specifically section 4 of the Contributor Terms<br>
provides a mechanism for attribution.<br></blockquote><div><br>Grant, who is giving you legal advice? Can you quote (or paraphrase) the advice you have been given please?<br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
I have asked Robert if he could share the email with the LWG, it would<br>
be interesting to see the question asked and the full legal reasoning.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<font color="#888888"> Grant<br>
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