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

[Michael Collinson]

On 16/05/2014 12:36, Simon Poole wrote:
> 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).
We are now putting the finishing touches to that and I hope that I'll be 
able to release it within the next two days provided that we all accept 
it. I will respond further to this thread then.

I will therefore informally comment:

1) Jean-Marc says, "As it stands now, there is nothing that prevents 
anyone from contributing ODbL-licensed data into an ODbL-licensed 
database." Yep. And we designed the contributor terms with that in mind.

2) There is one small issue to aware of: It is possible to have an ODbL 
data with a different contents license. For example a database of freely 
shareable photos can have a contents license that says, "but if you want 
to use a photo in published media, then a license fee applies".  
Unlikely for geodata, but be aware. The default contents license for 
ODbL is: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/

3) As with any other import, it is possible that the data would have to 
be removed if our OSM successors decided to change our license. It is my 
*personal opinion* that is is up to national or local OSM communities, 
as appropriate, to decide that is best for them on the "Import yes or 
no?" question.  I *personally* don't like to see imports of anything 
that is not either public domain-like or has a simple one level 
attribution clause. But on the other hand, I see a major reason for a 
future OpenStreetMap wanting to drop share-alike is that the entire open 
geodata community is dropping it ... so may be a gamble worth taking.

Mike