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

[edodd at billiau.net]

> 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
>
Mike didn't say that it was licensed NC
I'm sure that the data was licensed under the licence current for OSM at
the time.