[OSM-Science] Figshare and ODbL

[Dan S]

Hello list,

Many scientists now use services such as Figshare to share their
research data. I'm one of them. It supports open content licences
including the standard Creative Commons licences - but not the ODbL.

This came up as a problem when I found a dataset on Figshare derived
from OpenStreetMap. The dataset authors agreed that their data should
be ODbL-licensed, since it's a derived database. However, Figshare's
set of licence tags doesn't even allow you to specify "other" licence,
so the current situation is that it's tagged as CC-BY, but the readme
clarifies that it's ODbL.

I raised the issue with Figshare. They considered it but rejected adding ODbL:
https://support.figshare.com/support/discussions/topics/6000061528

Are there people on this mailing list who may have the same need,
and/or ideas about how to move this forward?

Best
Dan