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

[Grant Slater]

On 24 September 2010 10:36, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> Dave F. <davefox at ...> writes:
>
>>OS Opendata compatibility with the new proposed license & Contribution
>>Terms as they're worded *at this moment*.
>
> The current contributor terms for new accounts require you grant a licence to
> the OSMF to do 'any act that is restricted by copyright', subject to section 3
> which says that OSMF will distribute under CC-BY-SA, ODbL/DbCL, or 'another free
> and open licence'.  Since you are not the copyright holder for the OS OpenData
> content, I don't believe you can grant such a licence to the OSMF.
>
> If you interpret the text more loosely and don't require that you grant a licence
> as it says, but instead that you make sure the OSMF has the necessary permission
> one way or another, then they still aren't quite right, because the permission
> given by the Ordnance Survey doesn't really allow 'any free and open licence'.
>

Ordnance Survey's OpenData license specifically allows sub-licensing,
restricted by the need for attribution. There isn't a conflict with
the 'free and open licence' when section 4 (attribution) is taken into
account.

Regards
 Grant