[Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

[Jonathan]

I'm no expert, in fact I'm worse than an amateur commenting on legal 
matters, I'm an amateur applying common sense to legal matters, but here 
goes! ;-)

I would have thought that licensing cascades down, so as long as OSM 
attributes OGL then any other uses of OSM are inferring an attribution 
to OGL!  Otherwise when we receive our Oscar instead of just thanking 
our Parents and God, we'd have to thank our parents and grand-parents 
and great gran-parents and great great grand-parents ad infinitum and 
God!  Which means we'd never get to thank God! Then where would we be ;-)

Jonathan

http://bigfatfrog67.me

On 25/01/2014 17:09, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> 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
>
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