[OSM-Science] Figshare and ODbL

[Roland Ramthun]

Hi Dan,

I would recommend to use a scientific repository like Zenodo or one of
the several discipline specific repositories and not a
questionable infrastructure like figshare for anything related to
research. These usually support appropriate licenses like ODbL.

Best,
Roland

Am Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:44:44 +0100
schrieb Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com>:

> 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
> 
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