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

[TimSC]

On 16/06/11 11:00, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/16/11 10:55, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>> In the event of a future relicensing, LWG and the community would 
>> need to
>> check existing data and delete it if so.
>
> Does that not effectively rule out any future relicensing because the 
> burden of checking existing data is just too high? I mean, how would 
> one even *begin* to perform such a check, given that nobody is 
> actually obliged to tell us what license restriction his 
> externally-sourced data might be under?
I agree with what Robert said [1]:

> No, Clause 2 of the CTs requires you to grant OSMF "a worldwide,
> royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable licence to do any
> act that is restricted by copyright, database right or any related
> right over anything within the Contents..." subject only to some
> limitations on how OSMF may license the OSM database to others. Those
> limitations do not include any obligation for OSMF to ensure future
> licences have an attribution clause, and *that* is the problem I'm
> trying to highlight

TimSC


[1]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-April/011458.html