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

[Dave F.]

  On 17/09/2010 00:18, Grant Slater wrote:
> On 16 September 2010 21:26, 80n<80n80n at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:25 PM, 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.
>> Grant, who is giving you legal advice?  Can you quote (or paraphrase) the
>> advice you have been given please?
>>
> OSMF's legal council. Sure.
>
> In my own words and interpritation. LWG asked advice on the
> compatibility of using data licensed under a) CC-BY and; b) OS
> OpenData License (
> http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/docs/licence.pdf
> ) when a contributor uses that data to contribute under the ODbL +
> Contributor Terms (
> http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms ) , it was
> added by LWG that section 4 of CT (as linked and worded) provide a
> mechanism for attribution. Reply was that on b) explicit permission to
> sub-license is granted by their license with the conditions that
> required attribution is given and sublicensees keep said attribution.

Is this attribution when adding OS data, or when producing a map or both?

> With this response b) was seen as compatible. Under a) it was advised
> there is an issue of sub-licensing. Asking source author for
> permission to contribute under CT was an option; as was to keep
> distributing said specific data under license. Item b) is still open
> AFAIK.

If b) is compatible, could you clarify what you mean by it still being open?

Thanks
Dave F.