[OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 18 11:37:34 BST 2011


On 18 June 2011 20:35, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 June 2011 20:26, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>> Is this similar?:
>>
>> Andy, in Australia, contributes CC-By or CC-By-SA data to CC-By-SA
>> OpenStreetMap.  Perhaps the data is Australian boundaries or
>> something.
>> Betty, in UK, creates CC-By-SA tiles that include that boundary data.
>> Chuck, in USA, creates vectors from those tiles and later contributes
>> them to OSM under CC-By-SA and CT/ODbL.
>>
>> All fair here?  How would it change if Betty were in USA as well?
>
> Not sure of you point, since cc-by-sa can't be magically turned into
> ODBL data, it can only stay cc-by-sa.
>

Oh and as for CTs, they don't guarantee attribution in future
licenses, so that wouldn't be compatible with CC-by either...



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