<br>While putting together an email for this I came across an issue.<br><br>Currently OSM is Creative Commons licensed which looks pretty compatible with<br>their license (ignoring the practicalities of attribution). However the license is being<br>
discussed at the moment and may well soon change and/or split.<br><br>Should I wait until the license issue gets 'sorted' ?<br><br>cheers<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Franc Carter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:franc.carter@gmail.com">franc.carter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I'm happy to follow this up with the ABS if no-one else has done so yet.<br><br>cheers<div>
<div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Luke Woolley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lswoolley@gmail.com" target="_blank">lswoolley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, this is the copyright info displayed on the ABS website, which states that the data appears to be under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia</a> licence which means we can <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">copy, distribute, transmit and/or remix the data as long as it is attributed. If the data is implemented into OSM and is unchanged from the orig<span style="font-size: small;">inal data, "</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics" must be mentioned. If the data is a d</span><span style="font-size: small;">erivative of the original data, "Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data" must be mentioned. But because we want to look over everything we would like to use in OSM with the finest of fine tooth combs, somebody should shoot off an email to <span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="mailto:intermediary.management@abs.gov.au" target="_blank"><b><u><font color="#0000ff">intermediary.management@abs.gov.au</font></u></b></a></span> and see what they say.<br>
</span></span></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/24 James Churchill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pelrun@gmail.com" target="_blank">pelrun@gmail.com</a>></span><div><div></div><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>James Churchill <pelrun@...> writes:<br>
<br>
> Looks like it's CC licensed; here's a link:<br>
><br>
><br>
<a href="http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3ed4b2562bb00121564/70353d5dd53b0e2dca257522001e996c%21OpenDocument" target="_blank">http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3ed4b2562bb00121564/70353d5dd53b0e2dca257522001e996c!OpenDocument</a><br>
><br>
> - James<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Whoops, just noticed that link isn't explicit about what is CC licensed; here's<br>
another link:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?OpenDocument" target="_blank">http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?OpenDocument</a><br>
<br>
At the very least, it has contact details for the person to ask about the rights.<br>
<div><div></div><div><br>
- James<br>
<br>
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