[OSM-legal-talk] Is this clickthrough agreement compatible with OSM?

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Gregory Arenius <gregory at arenius.com> wrote:
> I've been considering bringing in some of the data available at
> http://www.datasf.org .  Most of it is behind this clickthrough agreement:
> http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/index2.asp . I think it would be
> okay but I thought I would ask here before I really started doing any work
> on it.

That license looks pretty bad to me, from an "including the data in
OSM" point of view.  I don't see any grant of rights to the user
beyond the permission to download.  Section IV grants the city all
rights to derivatives and no rights to you to make those derivatives.