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

[John Smith]

On 19 June 2011 20:24, Robert Whittaker (OSM)
<robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 June 2011 11:37, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 18 June 2011 20:35, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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...
>
> According to this recent post, LWG are saying that CC-By and CC-By-SA
> sources are both currently fine to use under the CTs:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-June/011931.html

Since CC-by and CC-by-SA both require attribution than the CTs would
have guarantee attribution, yet ODBL allows people to output PD tiles,
which don't offer attribution.

So for the above statement to be true they'd have to enforce
attribution on produced works at the very least.