[talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

[Sam Couter]

Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> 
> We've gone to insanely long lengths to make that the case, including getting
> clarifications from Ordnance Survey, Nearmap and many others. As far as I'm
> aware there are no remaining issues as to why you can't click 'accept'.

The solution to the problem of "We chose a licence and impose terms on
contributors that's incompatible with most sources of data" isn't to go
to each source of data individually to try to get them to relicence.
That's as ridiculous as choosing a GPL-incompatible software licence and
then whining that you can't legally incorporate all those wonderful GPL
licenced projects into yours.

> So while no doubt nearmap is a great resource and it's a shame they no longer
> want to be involved, it's clear that the majority do - even large sclerotic
> government institutions are being agile and helpful about this.

I don't think you understand the depths of recalcitrance when it comes
to the Australian government. Having data released under CC licences at
all was a huge leap, there's effectively zero chance of OSM being able
to licence the data under ODbL. The federal and state governments just
don't care.
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Sam Couter         |  mailto:sam at couter.id.au
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