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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 15. Nov 2019, at 00:19, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
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>  But the "ultimate test" of "can the new work be made without OSM data?" remains a good one, in my opinion, because then, the author can be told, "well, then, go do so, please, otherwise offer us attribution of some sort" (whether legally required, or not).


if you distribute a dataset and say: all roads but not those in OpenStreetMap, isn’t this already attribution? The question is whether you’d want to force them to distribute under ODbL rather than MIT (and maybe what the downstream users have to attribute).

Cheers Martin