[OSM-legal-talk] licenses suitable for import

Erik Johansson erjohan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 21:43:21 UTC 2016


On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Tobias Wendorff
<tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> could you please recommend me licenses for releasing data to ODbL?
> From my point of view, compatible licenses are CC-license without
> "SA" and "BY" and (only if possible) CC0 and PD or finally special
> license, like the following one:
>
> Some crporations like "Deutsche Bahn" (the biggest rail corporation
> in Germany) has released their data under CC BY 4.0 with a special text
> for OpenStreetMap (roughly translated):
>
> "If the data of Deutsche Bahn is part of the OpenStreetMap database work,
> a reference to the Deutsche Bahn AG in the list of contributors is enough.
> Crediting DB at each use of the data by a licensee of the mentioned database
> work is no longer necessary then. Indirect credits (with reference to the
> publisher of this databse work, which refers to the DB) is sufficient."
>
> Actually, that's a kind of dual-licensing with a special license for OSM.
> From my understanding, releasing data ODbL would be the worst thing,
> since the "BY" attribution of the data donator isn't compatible, is it?


I've choosen not to start on a couple of imports because of the CC-by
issue, I've gotten ok from the owners but they want to be included on
http://osm.org/contributors . Deutsche Bahn seems to be much more
free, I interpret it as source=Deutsche Bahn seems to be enough.


I wish people would stop releasing data with CC-by; "you have to
attribute us, but you have to remove that attribution when ever we
want you too" which is not present in ODbL so....



-- 
/emj



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