On 24 September 2010 12:10, David Dean <dd...@ieee.org> wrote: > Grant, > > On 24 September 2010 20:21, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote: >> Ordnance Survey's OpenData license specifically allows sub-licensing, >> restricted by the need for attribution. There isn't a conflict with >> the 'free and open licence' when section 4 (attribution) is taken into >> account. > > Section 4 only ensures that OSM provide attribution, not that the end > user of the OpenData data in OSM has to. > > For example, hypothetically a 2/3 majority of OSMers could vote for > CC0 under the CTs, but this would not be compatible for OpenData as > the end-user publishers of the CC0 OSM data would not be obliged to > attribute either OSM or OpenData. >
Yes, in this hypothetical future scenario we would no longer be compatible (in my view) with the OpenData License. I simply don't see the OSMF + Community putting such a scenario forward without them first sorting out the issue. Regards Grant _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
