[OSM-legal-talk] importing ODBl data

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Dupont" <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] importing ODBl data


> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> 
> wrote:
>> Should the licence change to something other than CC-BY-SA 2.0 or ODbL 
>> 1.0,
>> OSMF have guaranteed that they will identify and remove any data
>> incompatible with that licence.
>>
>> Incidentally, I believe that the burden OSMF have imposed upon themselves
>> makes it almost certain that no other licence than CC-BY-SA 2.0 or ODbL 
>> 1.0
>> would ever be used.
>
> Ok, well then if this is so, then we dont need to leave the license
> question open as in the CT. Why all the drama then?
>

I guess whoever drafted the CT's wanted to leave the possibility of other 
licences as open as possible.


> If I can resolve this question, then it should not be a problem for me
> to convince people to add the odbl clause to people providing data.
>

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "convince people to add the odbl 
clause to people providing data".

David

> I cannot ask people to agree to an open license, that is out of the
> question, but odbl for database rights does not seem to be a problem.
>
> It occurs me then under certain condions then cc-by-sa data from
> europe which has database rights anyway might be just fine and a moot
> point.
>
> thanks for your answers and opinions,
>
> mike
>
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