[talk-au] Database licence

[Liz]

There has been a great number of mails on osmf-talk about an upcoming vote on 
the database licence.

Sadly, I'd like to say that I will not be supporting the proposed new licence.
It is designed around European law, and gives "database protection" which is 
not a legal concept which is likely to apply here, after the recent High Court 
case Nine vs IceTv, when the database was not afforded "protection".

I've been thinking about the imports from ABS and the Qld government. That 
data is licensed CC-by-SA and would have to be *removed* from OSM as we cannot 
negotiate with ABS and Qld for the new, non-existent licence with no basis in 
Australian law. This would make a whacking hole in our data and make our map 
look like an empty shell.

Only those who belonged to OSMF in Oct 09 will get a vote. Those who are 
'merely' contributors will only get to be asked if they will relicense their 
data or not. Only data from people who agree to relicensing will go forward 
into the new licence.

Liz