[OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

[Simon Poole]

It is likely that the LWG will be providing a clarification on the
matter at hand soon (Paul has been doing some work on this over the last
couple of weeks).

It should be further noted that any ODbL licensed data that somebody
wants included in OSM would have to go through the same process as any
other import.

Is fairly obvious looking at the sequence and timing of events that led
to the licence change that making imports of ODbL licensed data easy,
clearly could have not been a goal of the switch and was not even on the
table. Claiming that there was or is such an intent is simply a fabrication.

All that said, address data is fairly unproblematic in that it is likely
one of the easier things to add and remove again, but just as well could
remain outside of OSM. Naturally importing address data is a sure killer
to creating our own, mapper curated dataset in such regions, which
implies that such areas would be those that would suffer most if an
incompatible licence change happened in the future.

Simon

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