[OSM-legal-talk] Confirmirmation on Natural England OGL data required

[Michael Collinson]

On 30/04/2012 17:38, rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can someone please confirm that I am able to make use of the Natural 
> England data released under the Open Government Licence. I was under 
> the impression that this licence is compatible with OSMs CTs and ODBL 
> licence, however the line about attribution has left me unsure. I am 
> currently exploring how best to use this data (so far the quality 
> looks good - as if boundaries have been determined from 1:10000 or 
> better Ordnance Survey maps), and am discussing this on talk-gb.
>
> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6J5ZA1hu93bVnhYbHNaVVVnWWM
>
> http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/publications/data/gidatasetsfeature.aspx
>
> Thanks,
> RobJN

A cautious yes but.

Natural England is using two licenses [1]. The "Open Government License" 
and the munged "Natural England and Ordnance Survey Open Government 
Licence 
<http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/open-government-licence-NE-OS_tcm6-30743.pdf>"

Your Google docs is the pure "Open Government License" and your quoted 
www.naturalengland.org.uk webpage also suggests this. However, you might 
want to email them and double check.

If the pure "Open Government License", then you are fine. Just add to 
our Attribution page [3]. I suggest text like this:

"Contains xxxx data from from Natural England © Natural England 
copyright [year] and which contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown 
copyright and database right [year].
Natural England does not endorse OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap's use of 
Natural England data." plus a link to their license.

A separate wiki project page about the data and an entry in the Import 
Catalogue [4] are also very helpful.

The but bit:  The "Natural England and Ordnance Survey Open Government 
Licence 
<http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/open-government-licence-NE-OS_tcm6-30743.pdf>" 
has an extra clause in that would force anyone using OSM data to also 
attribute Natural England, probably even if the map was on the other 
side of the world. Clearly not practical.  The OS has done the same but 
has kindly given us what amounts to an exception for use under ODbL 
(only). This does not mean, however, that Natural England can or will do 
the same.

If you have any further questions or need help, do feel free to contact 
me off-line.

Mike

[1] http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/copyright/default.aspx

[2] 
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/open-government-licence-NE-OS_tcm6-30743.pdf 


[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution

[4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
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