[OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

[Mike Collinson]

At 10:11 AM 7/10/2010, Rob Myers wrote:
>On 10/07/2010 01:19 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
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>>It also seems a bit like unnecessary licence proliferation.
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>That's only because it is.
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>They really should have used an ODC licence IMO.
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>- Rob.

The license aims at much wider coverage of than electronic databases per se.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licensing/what-ogl-covers.htm

... and we should bear in mind that at the moment we are only assuming that it will be eventually applied to OS Streetview data.

Mike