[OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence (was: CTs and the 1 April deadline)

[Mike Collinson]

Thanks Tom, this is excellent news and what the License Working Group was hoping would happen.

<http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm>http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm
http://www.jordanhatcher.com/2010/uk-open-government-licence-now-out/

The new attribution clause (and the main requirement) is far more practical in application than the previous one:  

"acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence; "

There is no longer any requirement to potentially force downstream users of OSM geodata to do the same.

Clause 4 of the new CTs may cover us completely, [it was designed for governmental organisations] and I have updated http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution. However,  the LWG has also been working for planet dumps and [X]API responses to include an XML element pointing to the same Attribution link to better discharge our distribution responsibilities. 

Any other comments and reviews welcome.  Peter, do you feel good to go?

Mike

At 10:29 AM 6/01/2011, Tom Hughes wrote:
>On 04/01/11 15:49, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
>> As it happens OS is planning to move to the Open Government Licence, and
>> this has an explicit compatibility clause with any ODC attribution licence.
>> (It also has sane guidance on attribution, e.g. "If it is not practical to
>> cite all sources and attributions in your product prominently, it is good
>> practice to maintain a record or list of sources and attributions in another
>> file. This should be easily accessible or retrievable.")
>
>This switch has just been announced:
>
>http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2011/01/changes-to-the-os-opendata-licence/
>
>Tom
>
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