[Imports-us] Portland Metro Area Building Import

Alex Barth alex at mapbox.com
Tue Dec 2 06:45:03 UTC 2014


Public domain or if that's a no go for some reason, a specific
permission in an email to use the data in osm under the contributor terms.
I could help draft the latter.

On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, Melelani Sax-Barnett <saxbarm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So, Metro just went through a lot of work to change their license to the
> only thing they thought was guaranteed to work with OSM, can we please get
> some specific suggestions we can give them for what to use instead?
>
> Thanks,
> Mele
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:24 PM Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','alex at mapbox.com');>> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','darrell at garnix.org');>> wrote:
>>
>>> > 1. The main thing that gives me some pause is the data being available
>>> > under the ODbL.
>>>
>>> While the irony of this is not lost on me, I’m not sure that it’s our
>>> responsibility to worry about theoretical changes. If, at a future date,
>>> OSMF decides to make OSM incompatible with itself, that’s their problem.
>>> We’re working in the world that actually exists, and the license is
>>> compatible with OSM. Plus Metro is explicit about wanting their data in
>>> OSM, and has a long history of improving OSM, and thus is likely to
>>> accommodate future changes.
>>
>>
>> Agreed w/ Serge's point. We shouldn't import any share alike data as this
>> makes OSM beholden to a licensing concept that doesn't work for data. IMO
>> this is not compatible with the contributor terms reserving the right to
>> change OSM's license to another open license that may or may not be share
>> alike. Especially if Metro is happy with data being used in OSM it'll be
>> great to get it in a non-share alike license. One head ache less when we'll
>> change the license ;)
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