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

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Thu Sep 16 21:36:56 BST 2010


On 09/16/2010 09:11 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 17 September 2010 06:06, Rob Myers<rob at robmyers.org>  wrote:
>> "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
>> [...]"
>>
>> 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.
>
> That doesn't address the issue if the license is changed to a
> non-attribution license and linking back to the attribution page
> created to try and satisfy Section 4.

If you mean the licence of OSM, that would clash with section 4 of the CTs.

If you mean a produced work, that would clash with section 4.3 of the ODbL.

- Rob.



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