[OSM-legal-talk] Licence compatibility: Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Fri Sep 9 18:22:37 UTC 2016



Am 09.09.2016 um 19:43 schrieb Robert Whittaker (OSM lists):
>
> There was a case in the UK where (IIRC) house price data was offered
> under the UK Open Government Licence (OGL). It turned out later that
> the addresses in it had been checked/normalised using a proprietary
> address database, and the licensor wasn't able to re-licence them.
> According to the OGL, it is still fine to offer the whole dataset
> under that licence, and there doesn't seem to be any obligation on the
> licensor to point out that some parts of the dataset cannot actually
> be re-used under the stated licence.
>
>
I beleive it was one of the major issues that openaddresses.uk ran in
to,  see
https://www.scribd.com/document_downloads/265440465?extension=pdf&from=embed&source=embed
page 48 and following.

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