[OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Jueves, 22 de Febrero de 2007 15:49, escribió:
> Thanks, that's very helpful. It certainly sounds more sane. If I could
> actually find the text of the license I might have read that myself :-)

Oh, why, you have it right here:

Human-readable form:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Lawyer-readable form:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode

(Keep in mind that you can broadcast using either the 2.0 or a newer license, 
such as the 2.5 one)

> Also, 'conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of the Original
> Author if supplied; '
>
> As I understand it, since users can't see who worked on an area through the
> API, that would mean that the contributor's name was NOT supplied, and
> therefore wouldn't have to be credited in any case? Only Steve C can see
> the actual contributors names/pseudonyms.

As far as I know, the username is fed to the DB, but that info can not be 
fetched easily (due to privacy concerns, and lack of a good API for reventing 
them, I guess).

However, if you read the entire thread, you'll meet David Groom, the Mystic 
Baghdad mapper :-D





On the other hand:

El Jueves, 22 de Febrero de 2007 15:31, David Groom escribió:
> As far as I know I am the only one who has currently contributed any data
> to the Baghdad area.
>
> I'm not sure if I under the terms of my contributing it to OSM I can put
> this into the public domain, but if I can then  I am willing to do so.

I don't know about UK copyright law, only about just a bit of spanish 
copyright law. So take my words with a grain of salt.

CC-by-sa v2.5, section 3, says (emphasis mine):
[...] Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, NON-EXCLUSIVE, 
perpetual [...] license.

"Licensor" means "David Groom". "You" means "OpenStreetMap". "Non-exclusive" 
means that David Groom can sell, or rent, or give away as a gift, or publish 
under PD, his CC-licensed work, regardless of the CC license.

As far as I know, double licensing (licensing the data under CC, then under 
Public Domain, then selling to another person, or whatever) is perfectly 
possible. Problems may come when you've licensed your work *exclusively* 
(e.g. a record company has the *exclusive* right to distribute it).

Disclaimer again: I am not a lawyer. If in doubt, ask your lawyer, or post to 
the UK CC mailing lists.


Cheers,
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