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

[David Groom]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Grant Slater" <openstreetmap at firefishy.com>
> To: <kevin at cordina.org.uk>; "Licensing and other legal discussions."
> <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license
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> 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.

It might greatly reduce the volume on this list if that legal advice were 
published in full.

David

>
> 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.