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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>AND would be unlikely to grant permission to distribute on a non-sharealike license. Nearmap would also be an issue, although they might of already granted permission. UMP might also be a mess. I’m aware of a few smaller instances of data that would have to be removed, and there could be other big ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For the PD issue, which is what my comment is about, there are plenty of government data sources that are incompatible with a PD-like license, e.g. CanVec, GeoBase, French Cadastre, Australian government data, UK OS, UK Natpan, LINZ, and there are plenty of others on a sub-national level. Also, because we’d be using a PD-like license[1] and not PD agencies which are obliged to only publish PD data would still be unable to publish our data.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[1]: Because in some jurisdictions there’s no way for someone to actually place something in the public domain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Alex Barth [mailto:alex@mapbox.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 01, 2013 7:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> Licensing and other legal discussions.<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The public domain argument is a bit of a red herring. If OSM used a PD-like license like PDDL or CC0 then we would be unable to make use of most of the external sources that we use, having to drop at a bare minimum 40% of the ways in the DB, and likely much more.</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Interesting, can you expand on this a little more? Like for instance what's a good example of a current external source or two effectively requiring us to have a share-alike license?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>