[OSM-talk] Community Data License Agreement – Permissive and ODbL?

[Maurizio Napolitano]

> See
> https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-sources/blob/master/sources/README.md
> for a long list of sources , inlcuding lots of CC BY (including CC BY
> 4.0). BTW about 10s in to my inspection I found a claim of a CC0 licence
> for something that is clearly not CC0 licensed.

Thanks!
I found in the list the IGM - Istituto Geografico Militare (the
Italian organization with the official mandate of the management of
cartography in Italy).
This sounds bad:  IGM doesn't have a open data policy.
By navigate the geoportals of some italian regions it's possibile find
a dataset with the list of the places in Italy made and owned by IGM.
In Italy we have the principle "open by default" ( =  a dataset
publishend on a website of an italian public administration without a
license is open data), but, in my point of view, if you find a dataset
created and owned by another organization ( eg. IGM), you can't assume
this situation.
If you navigate the IGM website, you can't find an open data section
or dataset with an open license.

I prefer to believe that this is a naive mistake