[OSM-legal-talk] Combining Creative Commons Licensed Data with ODbL and Redistributing

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Wed Nov 28 10:03:12 GMT 2012


Kate Chapman wrote:
> So is the new dataset a derived database? It seems like it is to 
> me. What should we be licensing this?

CC-BY is pretty much compatible with ODbL: CC-BY only requires attribution
and ODbL provides that. There may be tiny differences of legalese but
nothing substantive. So you can release the derived database under ODbL as
long as you give credit to both OSM and the producers of the hazard
database.

cheers
Richard
(obviously not a lawyer etc.)





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