[OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:

> Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at ...> writes:
>
> >Hello,just a quick note to mention that two different legal entities in
> very
> >different places in the world just adopted ODbL as their preferred
> >licenses:
>
> Thanks for the note.  The first of these, DataPlace, seems to want a
> permissive
> attribution-only licence ("we’ve taken an important step to make these data
> freely available for any use, anywhere, in any application, commercial or
> public,
> as long as that use attributes DataPlace") so it's not clear why they have
> chosen the strong-copyleft ODbL.
>
> Under the proposed contributor terms, would OSM be able to import or use
> any
> data from these ODbL-covered data releases?
>

The French one seems to be an intent rather than an actuality.  They also
talk about making a French port of the license.

The DataPlace one is weird.  They've actually *modified* sections 4.2 and
4.3 of the license to meet their needs, so the best that can be said is that
it's an ODbL-like license.  I think, like others, they've probably
misunderstood how to actually apply the license resulting in these strange
modification.  They've also, like others, overlooked the need to specify
what the content license is.

I doubt data from either of these sources would be compatible with OSM's
implementation of ODbL.
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