[OSM-legal-talk] Using data from Ville de Montréal

[Guillaume Pratte]

Hello,

The Ville de Montréal has some interesting data available under their own licence:

    http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/licence/licence-texte-complet/

However clause 4 of the licence (attribution) is more restrictive than the terms of the ODbL, and thus the data cannot be used in OSM.

Since this licence can and will change in the future (the city want to make it evolve to be on pair with other big North American cities), we would need a more permanent and explicit authorization from the city to use its data within OSM.

Surely this situation is not the first of its kind to happen regarding OSM. Are there examples of how this was handled with other data sources?

What would be the general guidelines to suggest to the city for such a legal document to authorize contributions of its data to OSM?

Should the city somehow allow explicitly the relicensing of its data under the ODbL for the OpenSteetMap project?

Thanks,

Guillaume Pratte
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