[OSM-legal-talk] How to deal with CC 2.0 data imports? Proposal Dual licensing of data under odbl-1.0

[Mike Dupont]

Hi,

I have been reading more about how to deal with the licenses of
Albania and Kosovo data we have been acquiring.

I must admit, I am still skeptical about this new license, but after
re-reading it a few times, it might work.
The basic idea is that it is codifying what is implicit in copyright
law into a more binding contract and making that explicit.

So that to have access to the database, you must accept the contract.
I am skeptical about how this works legally, but will trust that it
has been reviewed.

So in that sense if there is no click through license or terms of
usage that have to be agreed to, the new license is still a form of a
copyleft license, in so far that that I understand.

My confusion was with the idea of a contract and the new contributor
terms that open up even more options to osmf, including relicensing.
I don't need to bother the donators with the contributor terms because
we can always deal with it when it occurs, so a triple licensed
dataset, cc-by-sq 2.0 for old osm. cc-by-sa-3.0 for archive.org
hosting and odbl-1.0 for the new osm license should be enough to cover
it. So I assume that the contributor terms will be compatible with
users importing part of an odbl-1.0 database.

My point is that I would like to make sure that our work for kosovo
and albania will be usable in future versions of openstreetmap, and
that it will not be deleted. I was given the data to make it available
and usable by others and having it deleted will reduce its value and
go against my mandate.

I have written to the people who donated the data to dual license it
under the oodbl as well as under the creative commons.
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/

My idea is to add an extended rights notice to the archive.org rights
field files to allow the data to be used in the future versions of
osm.

I don't know about the contributor terms, I don't think they will be
needed for people just publishing data on archive.org, or giving me
data to publish.

Does this make sense to you?
Thanks for your patience,

mike

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James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania
flossk.org flossal.org