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

Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Wed Sep 29 18:48:38 BST 2010


On 29 September 2010 18:15, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Which argument would that be? I haven't seen it.
OS OpenData License is not the CC-BY-SA.

As stated in another thread OS OpenData is an attribution license and
specifically allows sub-licensing.

Regards
 Grant



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