[OSM-legal-talk] NSW LPI permission

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On 21 December 2015 at 16:48, Tom Lee <tlee at mapbox.com> wrote:
> The key thing here is that OSM *itself* would clearly be in compliance with
> LPI's terms. I think that's the bar that has to be cleared.

I have to disagree here. OSM is not just about OSM's own use of the
data, it is also about providing data to others under a standard
licence. It is therefore imperative that any data contributed to OSM
may be used freely by downstream users under the standard OSM licence
(currently ODbL) without any additional restrictions. The bar that has
to be cleared is not just that OSM's own use of the data is ok, but
also everyone else's downstream use under the ODbL will be ok.

I'm not making any comment as to whether the data under discussion
meets this criterion, but if it's possible for some to take OSM data
and re-use it under the ODbL and comply with all the ODbL terms, and
yet still violate the original the terms of the supply, then it's not
be ok to use that data in OSM.

Robert.

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Robert Whittaker