[Talk-ca] Federal licence : Confusion

[john whelan]

> This would be referring to the explicit permission that NRCan/StatCan
gave OSM some years ago. This is a form of attribution.

However my understanding is this was given before the OSM license change
and before the OSM requirement that anything uploaded may have its license
changed by OSM in the future which is contained in the new contributor's
terms for uploading.

Much of the data is tagged with CANVEC import etc viewable in JOSM but in
the Ottawa area in particular many of this attr / source tags have been
removed.

Cheerio John

On 12 October 2015 at 08:38, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bruno,
>
> OpenStreetMaps imports CANVEC data.
> CANVEC OpenData are provided by Natural Resources Canada.
> All Natural Resources Canada data are subject to the Open Government
> Licence – Canada.
> <http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada>
> Open Government Licence - Canada includes a restrictive attribution term
> which is not compatible with our ODBL licence.
>
>
> The ‘© OpenStreetMap contributors
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/43.66316/-79.41078>’ link on the
> map has the following in the *Our contributors* section:
>
> *Canada*: Contains data from GeoBase®, GeoGratis (© Department of Natural
> Resources Canada), CanVec (© Department of Natural Resources Canada), and
> StatCan (Geography Division, Statistics Canada).
>
> This would be referring to the explicit permission that NRCan/StatCan gave
> OSM some years ago. This is a form of attribution.
>
> Many other national contributors
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors> use an OGL licence,
> such as in the UK
> <https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/>.
> These contain very similar attribution terms as the OGL-CA licence. I
> noticed our Canada section of the (now vast) contributors' page was missing
> language that the OGL-CA licence requires, so I added it: ‘*Contains
> information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
> <http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada>.*’ I may have
> put it in the wrong place; discuss.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
> (who is totally *not* getting into the *Just because you can, doesn't
> mean you should* bit of the CanVec imports argument; nope, nosirree …)
>
>
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