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

[David Dean]

Grant,

On 24 September 2010 20:21, Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
> 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.

Section 4 only ensures that OSM provide attribution, not that the end
user of the OpenData data in OSM has to.

For example, hypothetically a 2/3 majority of OSMers could vote for
CC0 under the CTs, but this would not be compatible for OpenData as
the end-user publishers of the CC0 OSM data would not be obliged to
attribute either OSM or OpenData.

- David

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