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

[Rob Myers]

On 09/16/2010 08:45 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 17 September 2010 05:25, Grant Slater<openstreetmap at firefishy.com>  wrote:
>> This clashes with the legal advice giving to the Licensing Working
>> Group in that OS OpenData's license _is_ compatible with ODbL and the
>> Contributor Terms. Specifically section 4 of the Contributor Terms
>> provides a mechanism for attribution.
>
> You are yet to explain how this actually satisfies things completely

"4. At Your or the copyright holder’s option, OSMF agrees to attribute 
You or the copyright holder. A mechanism will be provided, currently a 
web page [...]"

It satisfies attribution requirements by allowing attribution.

The way that it allows attribution satisfies BY-SA 2.5+ as well as the 
OdBL. So any lack of satisfaction would apply to a notional future BY-SA 
OSM as well.

- Rob.