[OHM] The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

[Albin Larsson]

CC-BY-NC-SA would break the idea yes...
On Mar 25, 2015 8:09 PM, "SK53" <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> The data are CC-BY-NC-SA.
>
> It's not something we have talked about in any detail, but in general I
> would assume we want to work OHM on license terms similar or equivalent to
> OSM (i.e., ODbL, which allow commercial usage). The academic world tends to
> release things CC-BY-NC-SA, but recent German case law interprets that as
> 'for private use only', e.g., publication in a journal published by a
> for-profit company, even if the author receives no payment, would (quite
> rightly IMO) be deemed commercial.
>
> This does raise a problem because many in the digital humanities are fine
> with CC-BY-NC-SA, there is no consensus to accept eliminating the
> non-commercial restriction. It also means that certain fine digital
> humanities data collections are not directly usable in OHM.
>
> This is an issue which we need to discuss.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry
>
> PS. I have looked at time to time at historical boundaries in England &
> Wales: even quite recent boundary changes would be useful, just to
> interpret some current Open Data releases.
>
> On 25 March 2015 at 17:39, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
> todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone want to work with me to get these boundary changes into OHM?
>>
>> http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/
>>
>> --
>> Tod Robbins
>> Digital Asset Manager, MLIS
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