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

[Ben Last]

I'm sure Alex is reading the list, but I am too :)

If there are concerns with our license, we'll work to address them - a key
goal of ours is to support OSM and that was a firm requirement when the
license was drafted.

Cheers
Ben

2009/12/9 James Livingston <doctau at mac.com>

> On 09/12/2009, at 6:38 PM, Roy Wallace wrote:
> > "If you derive information from observing our PhotoMaps, and include
> > that information in a work, you will own that work, and may distribute
> > it to others under a Creative Commons licence."
> >
> > Does that not imply that the derived information may only be
> > distributed to others "under a Creative Commons licence"? Maybe I'm
> > reading this incorrectly?
>
> As mentioned by others, the obvious thing to do is ask the NearMap guys
> (I've explicitly CC'd Alex, in case he isn't reading the list) what they
> meant - that's more important than what they actually wrote, since we'd
> obviously want to be nice to them.
>
> But just going off what is written there, if the person tracing owns it (in
> the copyright holder sense), then they can license it however they want. In
> that case, a CC license is just an option (and it says "may" not "may only"
> or "must").
>
>
> With respect to ODbL, I think import CC-BY data into an ODbL database is
> fine - we'd fulfil the attribution requirement (CC-BY-SA wouldn't be, on the
> other hand). The problem if OSM goes ahead with the re-license would be the
> contributor terms, that means you can't import CC-BY data without the
> copyright holders approval.
>
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Ben Last
Development Manager (HyperWeb)
NearMap Pty Ltd
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