<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello,<div><br></div><div>The Ville de Montréal has some interesting data available under their own licence:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/licence/licence-texte-complet/">http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/licence/licence-texte-complet/</a></div><div><br></div><div>However clause 4 of the licence (attribution) is more restrictive than the terms of the ODbL, and thus the data cannot be used in OSM.</div><div><br></div><div>Since this licence can and will change in the future (the city want to make it evolve to be on pair with other big North American cities), we would need a more permanent and explicit authorization from the city to use its data within OSM.</div><div><br></div><div>Surely this situation is not the first of its kind to happen regarding OSM. Are there examples of how this was handled with other data sources?</div><div><br></div><div>What would be the general guidelines to suggest to the city for such a legal document to authorize contributions of its data to OSM?</div><div><br></div><div>Should the city somehow allow explicitly the relicensing of its data under the ODbL for the OpenSteetMap project?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Guillaume Pratte</div></body></html>