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<div>See <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/ODbL_Compatibility">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/ODbL_Compatibility</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>"License terms are compatible, but the licenser does not guarantee for it. <br></div><div>4c of the license explicitly states: <i>"Affirmer
disclaims responsibility for </i><br></div><div><i>clearing rights of other persons that may
apply to the Work or any use thereof, </i><br></div><div><i>including without limitation any
person's Copyright and Related Rights in the Work. </i><br></div><div><i>Further, Affirmer
disclaims responsibility for obtaining any necessary consents,
</i><br></div><div><i>permissions or other rights required for any use of the Work."</i>"<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example Wikidata is CC0 but mostly copyright incompatible with OSM<br></div><div>and unusable for imports in general.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Nov 6, 2020, 16:48 by legal-talk@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Government of Quebec has added the licence CC0 1.0 to his <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.donneesquebec.ca">https://www.donneesquebec.ca</a> Data portal <span> for import of datasets and never returned requests to add specific authorisation for OSM</span>. <br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Looking at the history of discussions, it is not clear for me if the CC0 Public license is compatible with OSM. <br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Then my question : Does <span> CC0 1.0</span> license make the data compatible with OpenStreeMap Odbl llicense ? <br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">If so, we will have access to datasets of high quality such as route, hydrography, address.<br></div><div><br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">License in french<br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/licence/">https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/licence/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Deepl translation <br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><div>In order to promote collaboration, exchange and sharing, as well as the use of open data by all, the Government of Quebec and several municipalities have adopted a common licence, Creative Commons 4.0 (CC), which comes in six variants.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This licence is recognized as one of the least restrictive in terms of the rights to use open data, while protecting copyright.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The universal Creative Commons 1.0 licence (CC0 1.0) can also be used, in particular to encourage the integration of data into a larger set of open and linked data, in which the origin of each piece of data can sometimes be more complex to recognise. <br></div><div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"><b><i> <br><span class="font" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </span></i></b></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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