[OSM-legal-talk] About CC-4.0 and ODbl

[Jonathan Harley]

On 01/10/13 06:01, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> On 01.10.2013 06:28, Pekka Sarkola wrote:
>> Questions: Is CC-BY-4.0 compatible with OSM current license (ODbl)? If
>> data is released under CC-BY-4.0: can we import it to OSM?
>
> To my understanding not even ODbL would be suitable for import into OSM.
>
> To be suitable for OSM it must conform with the contributor terms 
> which allow a future license change.

That applies to data added by individual contributors, but the OSMF can 
allow imports under other terms.

See the preamble to
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms

I imagine there would probably be no "clash with our principles" in the 
case of CC-BY so long as the copyright owner was happy with our system 
for attribution.

J.

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