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

Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Wed Sep 29 13:21:34 BST 2010


On 29 September 2010 13:15,  <kevin at cordina.org.uk> wrote:
> But since the licence hasn't been implemented yet, surely the final decision on choice needs to be made now.  Practice has clearly changed since 2008.
>
> If the decision was set in stone in 2008 why wasn't there a big warning when the OS data was released that it was incompatible?
>

The legal advice is that OS OpenData _is_ compatible.

But the Licensing Working Group (LWG) is making further clarification
revisions on the Contributor Terms and these will need to be checked.

Regards
 Grant
 Part of the Licensing Working Group.



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