[OSM-legal-talk] Response regarding use of PSMA Administrative Boundaries (Australia)

Diane Peters diane at creativecommons.org
Fri Jul 8 19:22:08 UTC 2016


Do you mind expanding on what you mean when you say CC hasn't addressed the
viral nature of BY 4.0 relative to databases? Trying to understand.

Diane M. Peters
General Counsel, Creative Commons
Portland, Oregon
http://creativecommons.org/staff#dianepeters
13:00-21:00 UTC


On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

>
> >
> > There are no substantial differences between the CC BY 3.0 and the CC BY
> > 4.0 licences. A summary of the differences can be found here:
> >
> https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/version4/
> .
> > CC BY 4.0 (like CC BY 3.0) does not prevent OpenStreetMap from applying
> > your own licence to your products but requires end users to comply with
> > the CC BY licence (in relation to the original data).
> >
> Just a further remark, this comparaison does not address the potential
> viral character of CC by 4.0 when database rights are involved (which
> unluckily CC seems to be completly quiet on), which again would cause
> issues when including such data in OSM.
>
> Simon
>
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