On 10/5/09, Laurence Penney <l...@lorp.org> wrote: > It seemed clear that such data extractions would not be considered > public domain, simply by virtue of having no grid reference or lat- > long. They were part of MasterMap, hence regarded as chargeable data.
that's the suck-'em-dry licensing model ;-) > So even if they had responded with the data, I probably wouldn't have > been able to anything with it. (A local authority might well respond > positively to an FOIA request of, say, a list of all the footbridges > in its jurisdiction, yet I'd not necessarily be allowed to republish > that data, or use the TOIDs in my database.) FOIA, for some values of "free"... > It’s good that OSM is asking the same questions of itself! > > FWIW, I very much hope that OSM would be freer with its IDs than > Ordnance Survey seems to be with its TOIDs. However, since Vanessa had > “no idea” about the OS's policy on TOID reuse, perhaps there isn’t one. i would hope so too, as it makes OSM data more attractive for those users who don't need to manipulate the data, but need to annotate it or reference it. i, for one, would really like to see the next beerintheevening or tripadvisor based on OSM data, not just the tiles. we have the opportunity here to decide whether or not we, as a community, feel that this use of OSM data is OK. from my reading of the ODbL (insert standard disclaimers here) it's a grey area which we can strongly influence by public discussion. cheers, matt _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
