[talk-au] Suburb boundaries

[James Churchill]

Franc Carter <franc.carter at ...> writes:

> While putting together an email for this I came across an issue.
> Currently OSM is Creative Commons licensed which looks pretty compatible with
> their license (ignoring the practicalities of attribution). However the
license > is being discussed at the moment and may well soon change and/or split.
> Should I wait until the license issue gets 'sorted' ?

I don't see a problem - the CC license the data is under only requires
attribution, it doesn't restrict what the license of the derivative work is. And
as OSM is looking for a license that (and I quote) "needs to give our database
the same three basic licensing elements (freely copiable; share-alike;
attribution required) as it has at present" there's little worry of OSM becoming
incompatible.

At least, the matter shouldn't delay inquiries :)

- James