[Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence compatibility: Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)

[Stewart Russell]

I checked on OSM-legal. Would probably work if we had a statement from Peel
agreeing to inclusion. As is, it's likely not compatible.

Stewart

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From: "Simon Poole" <simon at poole.ch>
Date: Sep 8, 2016 13:57
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence compatibility: Open Data Licence for
The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)
To: <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
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>
> The additional terms are "a bit of" a problem, however might be
surmountable if they are willing to give us a statement specifically for
the inclusion in OSM (along the lines of that they agree that the inclusion
of the data in OpenStreetMap and distribution on terms of an open and free
licence fulfils the conditions).
>
> All variants of the OGL have a further issue in that you actually have to
verify that the Licensor has the necessary rights to licence -all- the
material in their dataset to you on these terms. This might seem like a
theoretical hurdle invented by me, alas it is not, as some of our UK
colleagues can testify.
>
> Simon
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