[OSM-legal-talk] Compatibility of new license with old

[Renaud MICHEL]

Le samedi 28 août 2010 à 11:14, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com a écrit :
> The problem is that we got data also from some GIS companies who
> wanted non commercial only. The cc protected them in some way. I will
> have to go back and rework all the contracts.

(as this is legal-talk, I must say that IANAL, thi sis only my personal 
understanding)

Then you are already in problem, because the actual license used by OSM, CC-
BY-SA, does not forbid commercial use (it doesn't have an NC clause).

So if some companies provided you data with a non-commercial clause it is 
already incompatible with the current license used by OSM, so I guess such 
data should be removed, or a better agreement has to be found with tose 
companies.

regards
-- 
Renaud Michel