[talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Grant Slater
<openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
> The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission
> to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the
> OpenStreetMap project database published under any free and open
> license, including ODbL
That is a huge relief! Not quite sure how it works (data.gov.au covers
a lot of different jurasdictions and departments - seemed like an
impossible task to ask each one to relicence) but if LWG is happy for
that data to stay, that's good enough for me!