[OSM-legal-talk] Possible license violation at geocommons.com

[Liz]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Kari Pihkala wrote:
> I was browsing through geocommons.com and noticed that they have a lot of
> data extracted from OSM (hundreds of thousands of points). They are
> relicensing the data with Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. OSM
> data is originally licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
> 2.0. So, it looks like they are violating OSM license.
>
> Have a look at
> http://finder.geocommons.com/searches?query=tag%3Aopenstreetmap and the
> license text at the bottom of the page, behind the 'Details' button.
>
> Should I ask them to remove the data?
>
> - Kari

<quote>
Publicly Sourced Data
Much of the GeoData in Finder! has been sourced from public information and 
cleaned by the GeoCommons data team.
</quote>

"cleaned" OSM data should be updated on OSM