[Openstreetmap] Talking about Licences

[Andrew Birkett]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 16:18 +0100, Jon Stockill wrote:
> I would imagine if it's data you've colelcted yourself you can do 
> anything you like with it. I've been playing with data from our customer 
> database this afternoon combined with http://www.jibble.org/ukpostcodes/ 
> to provide me with customer numbers by postcode area.

Yeah, IMHO collecting your own dataset from scratch should be fine. But
I think accountability is going to be an important factor in any open
mapping effort.  

I'm currently digitizing out-of-copyright maps of Edinburgh (now that
I've got my head around grass).  I have evidence that these are legal
sources to me to use.  But if I grab a list of postcode regions off the
web, I need to be able to demonstrate that the origins of that data are
legal.  For all I know, someone may have just copied the copyrighted PAF
data.

If the Ordnance Survey or Royal Mail were to send me a 'cease and
desist' letter demanding that I take my website offline for copyright
violation, I want to be sure that I can prove my sources and be able to
tell them to get lost! :-)

Andrew

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