[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

[Peter Miller]

On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:51, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>
> "This license explicitly allows the distribution of a Produced Work
> under any of the following licenses: GPL v2 or later, GFDL, CC-SA,
> CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-SA-NC. In addition, a Produced Work may be distributed
> under any other license that complies with the requirements set  
> forth in
> this license."
>
> - then this would make it possible to create a Produced Work that  
> mixes
> OSM data and, say, CC-BY-SA data; your above scenario would still be
> possible, but it should be reasonably unattractive for a commercial
> entity to spend a vast amount of money to finally have a collection of
> data that is CC-BY-SA or GFDL licensed. And if it should happen and be
> used for a purpose that we don't like then we simply create ODbL v1.1
> which prohibits exactly that.

Sounds great.

Lets document this one and move on. I are clear that there is an  
issue, we think we have got a good recommendation (and incidentally  
this is the same one we came to when reviewing the April08 version and  
which we incorporated into the Use Cases). Possibly we need to be more  
articulate this time!



Regards,



Peter

>
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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