[Talk-GB] Please do not use Code-Point Open, (postcode) data in OSM

[Michael Collinson]

On 11/01/2012 17:39, Ed Avis wrote:
> Michael Collinson<mike at ...>  writes:
>
>    
>> I regretfully have to relay that while the Ordnance Survey "has no
>> objections to geodata derived in part from OS OpenData being released
>> under the Open Database License 1.0", this has to permanently exclude
>> Code-Point Open, (postcode) data.
>>      
> That data is distributed under the UK Open Government Licence.  If that licence
> does not allow use under ODbL, then the same surely applies to other data
> released with that licence.
>
> I am sure that the Royal Mail commercial licensing people would very much prefer
> that the open postcode data were more restricted, but that does not mean they can
> somehow make exceptions to the licence.  Could you give more details about what
> particular permission is needed?
>
>    
Hi Ed,

OS data is currently not distributed under UK Open Government Licence 
but their own license which then incorporates UK Open Government 
Licence. Their own license includes a downstream attribution clause 
which OGL does not.

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-July/011995.html 
clarifies the Code-point position.

CC-BY-SA technically forces map makers to attribute each and every 
contributor to OSM, ODbL does not. So Albanian school-children should 
perhaps have to attribute the Royal Mail if they make a map of their 
school under CC-BY-SA. They do not have to under ODbL and the Royal Mail 
feels that dilutes their IP. Extreme example but it demonstrates the point.

Mike