[OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

[James Livingston]

On 16 June 2011 21:08, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> On 06/16/11 12:31, Dermot McNally wrote:
>
>> Not quite, based on what Richard is saying. It would allow future
>> relicensing but only if the new licence remained compatible with the
>> terms seen to be required by the OS (currently attribution, if I've
>> understood correctly).
>>
>
> So after a few years we might have data in our database that was given to
> someone with the explicit restriction that it may only ever be distributed
> under OdbL. Sufficient for the person to contribute the data to OSM under
> the current CT. A future license change would then need a crystal ball to
> single out that data set (the contributor might not even be available for
> communication any longer) and determine that it has to be removed.
>

More importantly, the current license is CC-BY-SA not ODbL. Does that mean
someone who has agreed to the Contributor Terms is allowed to upload
CC-BY-SA data which can't be re-licensed to ODbL?


If so, how is the re-licensing problem only an issue for the future?
Wouldn't it be an issue for changing from CC-BY-SA to ODbL, since we know
which people have agreed to the CTs but not if their data can be
re-licensed?

As far as I can tell, the 1.2.4 CTs don't give OSMF any more permission to
license data under ODbL than it gives them to license it under any "other
free and open licence" as ODbL is not mentioned in any other place than in
the list that includes the phrase "other free and open licence".

-- 
James
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