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

[Anthony]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Grant Slater
<openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
> Yes our legal council believes CT/ODbL is compatible. The lawyer did
> supply a breakdown and reasoning why he believes it is compatible. BUT
> the Contributor Terms are currently being revised and will need
> further review. I cannot release their breakdown and reasoning without
> their blessing, as you know the lawyer represents OSMF.

Having seen the argument as to why CC-BY-SA produced works are
compatible with CT/ODbL, I bet I can guess...  The argument goes
something like 1) Geodata isn't protectable.  2) OS is geodata.  3)
Therefore OS is compatible with CT/ODbL.