[Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

[Matthijs Melissen]

On 24 January 2014 11:00, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
<robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you read to the end of the OGL, you'll find that it helpfully says:
>
> "These terms are compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution
> License 4.0 and the Open Data Commons Attribution License, both of
> which license copyright and database rights. This means that when the
> Information is adapted and licensed under either of those licences,
> you automatically satisfy the conditions of the OGL when you comply
> with the other licence."
>
> So you can be confident that if you have data under the OGL then you
> would have sufficient rights to allow re-distribution under the ODC-By
> licence, which in turn implies it's ok for OSM to distribute it under
> the ODbL.

One thing that confuses me is how different licenses that require
attribution can be compatible, or even how a work under one license
requiring attribution can be re-used under that same license. The OGL
requires the attribution 'Contains public sector information licensed
under the Open Government Licence v2.0' (or a more specific
attribution). Openstreetmap requires '© OpenStreetMap contributors'.
So if someone re-uses Openstreetmap data that contains OGL data and
only attributes it with '© OpenStreetMap contributors', would that not
be a violation of the license of the OGL data, because the government
is not attributed? Can someone clarify that?

Kind regards,
Matthijs