[OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA is compatible with ODbL?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Francis Davey wrote:
> Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote
> > Is it? I thought most of the Australian Government data was 
> > CC-BY - a much easier problem.
> But still incompatible with the contributor terms in the sense 
> that a CC-BY licensee does not have sufficient rights to agree 
> to them. No-one could lawfully take CC-BY data and 
> contribute it via the contributor terms of course.

Indeed, but one which should be fixable by minor modifications to the
contributor terms (which some of us are suggesting to OSMF that they do) and
potentially offering a derogation from the terms for certain data sources. 

cheers
Richard
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