[OSM-legal-talk] Compatible licenses

[TimSC]

Brian Quinion wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Richard Weait<richard at weait.com  <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk>>  wrote:
>>/  On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:01 AM, James Livingston
/>>/  <lists at sunsetutopia.com  <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk>>  wrote:
/>>/
/>>>/  * Currently you can import any data with a compatible licence (e.g. CC-BY-SA, CC-BY), you can't if we change without the copyright holder's permission
/>>/
/>>/  This is a tremendous improvement in my opinion.  I'd like to see every
/>>/  data publisher as informed and enthusiastic about having contributed
/>>/  to OpenStreetMap as the everyday mapper.
/>
>My reading of the contributor terms is that I have to be the copyright
>owner of all data I add.  But some of the data I've added recently was
>based on OSSV tracing and as such I don't own the copyright - I'm
>licensed to use it SS-BY by Ordnance Survey.

Brian

That is my interpretation as well. I already raised this issue with the LWG. The good news is this saves me having to worry about the relicensing if I must say "no" because of a legal issue.

TimSC


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