[talk-au] National Public Toilet Map released under restrictive licence

[Emilie Laffray]

2009/12/11 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>

> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
> > The long awaited National Public Toilet Map has been released in XML
> > (but not under CC-BY like many reports recommended) @
> > http://data.australia.gov.au/610
> >
> > Instead, it's a click through licence that amongst other Proprietary
> > terms requires anybody with database access to accept these terms
> > again (but viewing generated map tiles is okay):
> > "3.2  You may not sublicense your rights under these Terms to any
> > person. If you require another person to access the Database for the
> > Permitted Purpose (including a person you engage to design or build a
> > Derivative Product on your behalf), that person must obtain a copy of
> > the Database from the www.australia.gov.au website and comply with the
> > Terms of this licence."
> >
> > Two steps forward, one step back.
> > - Alex
> >
> a clear piece of evidence that getting Au data licensed for ODbL is going
> to
> be like pushing excreta uphill
>
>
I may be reading it wrong, but getting the data to work with cc-by-sa would
not be possible either. Essentially, with OSM, you are doing sublicensing
all the time due to the way it is working. But I could be understanding
wrongly. In the case of Google, since they don't give you access to the
database, it doesn't matter.
I don't think it is here an odbl problem.

Emilie Laffray
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