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

[Rob Myers]

On 09/28/2010 08:47 PM, Dave F. wrote:
>
> They went to the OS & demanded they release their data.When they did,
> OSMF almost immediately turn back to them & say "oh we don't want it
> now".That's what I'm finding hard to conceive.

A number of projects asked the OS to free their data (including OSM, OKF 
and Free Our Data).

I'm in the UK and I was over the moon when the OS freed their data. But 
OSM needs to do the right thing with its own data internationally.

Given that OSM is going to be relicencing, if the OS's licence isn't 
CT-compatible then the options are for the OS to relicence their data or 
for that data to be excluded from OSM's database.

If the OS ODL isn't CT compatible, and if the OS won't relicence, this 
doesn't prevent people from creating Produced Works under BY(-SA) that 
include OS and OSM data.

This is about having an effective global licence, not about whether any 
local institutional data sources are compatible. I'm unconvinced that 
the OS ODL is compatible with OSM's *current* licence...

- Rob.