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

[Kevin Cordina]

The OS are going to have to dictate the licence because their data is now in OSM and unless you remove it totally, the new licence will have to be compatible with the terms it was added under.



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Sent: Tue Sep 28 20:27:45 2010
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

Hi,

Dave F. wrote:
>> When you joined OSM, was OS Streetview tracing already available then? 
>> Becasue you make it sound as if OSM without OS Streetview wasn't worth 
>> your time
> 
> No I have not & you know that.
> 
> Most of my posts have been questions which I notice you've been unable 
> to answer.

The post which I replied to did not contain a single question,

Your general question was whether OS data is interoperable with OdbL+CT 
(you asked whether somebody could "confirm" or "deny" that); in further 
posts you made it clear that you would find it "sad" and "hard to 
conceive" if it were not so.

I cannot confirm or deny your original question; but I wanted to say 
that it is in no way "sad" or "hard to conceive" if the license that OSM 
chooses is not compatible with a handful of government data licenses 
around the world. We are certainly not going to let the OS dictate the 
license we choose for our data.

Bye
Frederik

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