I'm sure Alex is reading the list, but I am too :)<br><br>If there are concerns with our license, we'll work to address them - a key goal of ours is to support OSM and that was a firm requirement when the license was drafted.<br>
<br>Cheers<br>Ben<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/9 James Livingston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doctau@mac.com">doctau@mac.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 09/12/2009, at 6:38 PM, Roy Wallace wrote:<br>
> "If you derive information from observing our PhotoMaps, and include<br>
> that information in a work, you will own that work, and may distribute<br>
> it to others under a Creative Commons licence."<br>
><br>
> Does that not imply that the derived information may only be<br>
> distributed to others "under a Creative Commons licence"? Maybe I'm<br>
> reading this incorrectly?<br>
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</div>As mentioned by others, the obvious thing to do is ask the NearMap guys (I've explicitly CC'd Alex, in case he isn't reading the list) what they meant - that's more important than what they actually wrote, since we'd obviously want to be nice to them.<br>
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But just going off what is written there, if the person tracing owns it (in the copyright holder sense), then they can license it however they want. In that case, a CC license is just an option (and it says "may" not "may only" or "must").<br>
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With respect to ODbL, I think import CC-BY data into an ODbL database is fine - we'd fulfil the attribution requirement (CC-BY-SA wouldn't be, on the other hand). The problem if OSM goes ahead with the re-license would be the contributor terms, that means you can't import CC-BY data without the copyright holders approval.<br>
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