[talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

[John Smith]

2009/12/9 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote:
>> Nearmap allows in their T&C's to derive data, the data is under the
>> license of the person deriving it chooses to release it under.
>>
>> The bigger issue was the AU Govt data, but that has fixed it self
>> since it was relicensed as cc-by from cc-by-sa
>
> but it still is not clear if the au govt data can go into the ODbL because it
> can never be owned by OSMF

>From what I understand the main stipulation of CC-BY is that it needs
to attribute the copyright owner, if there was a -SA or -ND or -NC
that could be problematic.

Although..... If CC-BY-SA isn't likely to stand in Australia for OSM
it isn't likely to stand for anyone else either....