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Thanks Tom, this is excellent news and what the License Working Group was
hoping would happen.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm">
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm</a>
<br>
<a href="http://www.jordanhatcher.com/2010/uk-open-government-licence-now-out/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.jordanhatcher.com/2010/uk-open-government-licence-now-out/<br>
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</a>The new attribution clause (and the main requirement) is far more
practical in application than the previous one: <br><br>
"acknowledge the source of the Information by including any
attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where
possible, provide a link to this licence; "<br><br>
There is no longer any requirement to potentially force downstream users
of OSM geodata to do the same.<br><br>
Clause 4 of the new CTs may cover us completely, [it was designed for
governmental organisations] and I have updated
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution" eudora="autourl">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution</a>. However, the
LWG has also been working for planet dumps and [X]API responses to
include an XML element pointing to the same Attribution link to better
discharge our distribution responsibilities. <br><br>
Any other comments and reviews welcome. Peter, do you feel good to
go?<br><br>
Mike<br><br>
At 10:29 AM 6/01/2011, Tom Hughes wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 04/01/11 15:49, Richard
Fairhurst wrote:<br><br>
> As it happens OS is planning to move to the Open Government Licence,
and<br>
> this has an explicit compatibility clause with any ODC attribution
licence.<br>
> (It also has sane guidance on attribution, e.g. "If it is not
practical to<br>
> cite all sources and attributions in your product prominently, it is
good<br>
> practice to maintain a record or list of sources and attributions in
another<br>
> file. This should be easily accessible or
retrievable.")<br><br>
This switch has just been announced:<br><br>
<a href="http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2011/01/changes-to-the-os-opendata-licence/" eudora="autourl">
http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2011/01/changes-to-the-os-opendata-licence/</a>
<br><br>
Tom<br><br>
-- <br>
Tom Hughes (tom@compton.nu)<br>
<a href="http://compton.nu/" eudora="autourl">http://compton.nu/</a><br>
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