<font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Remember that you are giving OSM authority to re-license the data in OSM in the future and that OSM is explictly seeking to protect and copyright the data in the database with the new .ODBL license. I don't think you have the authority to bind OSM to the terms of use especially the word revocable but that's just my personal opinion.<br>
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<br>Cheerio John <br><br><br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 January 2012 15:28, Greg Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.smith1@gmail.com">greg.smith1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was in the process of adding some data, and had a discussion with another mapper about whether the license provided by Mississauga Data (<a href="http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/residents/mississaugadata" target="_blank">http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/residents/mississaugadata</a>) is compatible with the OSM licence. <div>
<br></div><div>Their licence, available in the site's terms of use <a href="http://www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/CityOfMississaugaTermsOfUse.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/CityOfMississaugaTermsOfUse.pdf</a>, provides "a world‐wide, royalty‐free, non‐exclusive, revocable licence to use, modify, and distribute the Datasets in all current and future media and formats for any<div>
lawful purpose". </div><div><br></div><div>I assumed this provided the permission to use their data without restriction that OSM is looking for; can anyone confirm?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Greg</div>
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