[OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

80n wrote:
> I doubt data from either of these sources would be compatible with OSM's 
> implementation of ODbL.

I don't think that it was Emilie's intent to point out that there is 
data "compatible" with OSM's implementation of ODbL (any PD data source 
would be - hardly news!). In fact I'm not even sure if these databases 
would contain anything of interest to OSM.

This is about the ODbL being adopted by others, thus showing that it is 
not just OSM who believe that it is good.

The changes that the dataplace people made to 4.2 and 4.3 seem to have 
been intended to clarify how they'd like their attribution to be; I 
agree that this seems to be some kind of misunderstanding on their part, 
as they should just have given that as a separate copyright notice which 
would then have required everyone to keep it intact as per 4.2c, rather 
than including it verbatim in 4.2b.

Bye
Frederik

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