[OSM-legal-talk] OSM based GPS navigations and ODbl license of OSM data

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Thu Jan 8 03:31:25 UTC 2015


On 1/7/2015 7:21 PM, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> We could start merging 3rd party ODbL into OSM 
We can do so right now from a legal perspective. In fact, there are 
imports of ODbL data that have taken place.
> But then have a hard time to fulfill attribution requirements.
No - we'd attribute the same way we attribute other sources.
> And an even harder time to get rid of the data in case of another 
> license change in the future.
See 
http://osmfoundation.org/wiki/License#Can_third-party_ODbL-licenses_data_be_imported.3F. 
It works like any other imported data.



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