The new licence which has been described as 'cc-by-sa for data', I thought it would be good to try to summarise this licence briefly in plan English and see what consensus there is for this summary.
I have reviewed the cc-by-sa licence and it seems to come down to these three key points: 1) Ensure that if people make improvements or changes to the OSM dataset that they must make their version of the dataset available under this licence so it can be used by others and can be integrated back into the main OSM dataset if appropriate. 2) Ensure that if people use the OSM dataset within any publically available work that they should attribute OSM in the resulting work appropriately for the medium, the space available and the relative significance of the OSM data to their final work unless they receive a formal request from the foundation for the work not to be attributed. 3) It should allow people to do anything within reason they like with the OSM dataset so long as they comply with 1) and 2) and do not bring OSM into disrepute. These simple principles will of course result in quite a lot of detail in the actual licence which is why we employing lawyers but is that about it for a very brief brief? Can people indicate if they think this summary is about right? If so I suggest we come up with a bunch of real-life and theoretical use-cases which we can discuss and then in due course we can test the final licence against these use-cases. Regards, Peter Miller Ito World Ltd http://www.itoworld.com <http://www.itoworld.com/>
_______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
