[OSM-talk] Licence of Facebook's derived road datasets? ODbL?

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 14 November 2019, Rory McCann wrote:
>
> That webpage says the data is MIT licenced (_data_ under MIT is odd,
> but whatever). The files are zipfiles with a licence file also saying
> MIT. The description is “Country exports contain only the AI
> predicted roads that are missing from OpenStreetMap”. That makes me
> think this data is a dervived database of OSM, and hence should be
> ODbL.

I think you are correct - and the OSMF seems to share this position - 
see the last example of "you DO need to share" on

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidelines/Horizontal_Map_Layers_-_Guideline

and the last example on

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidelines/Collective_Database_Guideline_Guideline

> A Facebook employee, long time OSMer, and fellow candidate for the
> OSMF board, answered the same way³.

While OSMF board candidates are of course in principle free to state 
their opinion on any forum of their choosing candidates should realize 
that doing so on a venue that requires community members to disclose 
personal data to a third party corporation to be able to participate or 
even to access the record of such communication is a very strong 
political statement.

Given that only one of this year's board candidates openly states to be 
working for facebook on their OSM user page - am i right to assume that 
the person you are talking about is Michal Migurski?

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/