[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

[Richard Bullock]

>> I am also surprised that we are going to the compulsory re-licensing
>> when there are still (as far as I can tell without looking too closely)
>> doubts over the compatibility of significant datasources with the new
>> licence or contributor terms - From what I can tell from a few wiki
>> pages, it is not clear whether OS Opendata in the UK, or Nearmap in
>> Austrailia is compatible.   I would have expected these issues to be
>> resolved before forcing people to re-licence.
>
>Isn't it funny how, just over a year ago, we couldn't care less about
>anything the Ordnace Survey did, and suddenly we are a project that must
>choose their license according to what is compatible with OS?

Probably because OS OpenData has been used fairly significantly by many folk 
in the UK since released. Without any sort of public indication otherwise 
from the LWG, it was difficult to believe that a new licence chosen wouldn't 
be compatible with data which appears to only require attribution.

Not that I agree with it, but OS StreetView has been used to map out entire 
towns in the UK