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

[Robert Whittaker (OSM)]

Francis Davey <fjmd1a at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 September 2010 13:22, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
> To clarify: the CT's as the currently stand:
>
> http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms
>
> require (per clause 4) OSMF to attribute on request. There is no
> mechanism for that term to be changed, so regardless of what licence
> may be used, OSMF must still comply with clause 4 and hence attribute
> on request.

I can see that the terms would require OSMF to provide the attribution
page themselves no matter what the license is changed to, but I don't
think it produces an obligation for them to enforce the virality of
that attribution on any downstream users that they choose to license
the data to.

The ODbL already doesn't enforce viral attribution on derivatives of
produced works, and the "free and open" description of any new license
that may be adopted doesn't obligate any new license to have any
attribution requirements.

-- 
Robert Whittaker