To come back on topic, I don't think this has made legal-talk yet. Thanks to Jordan Hatcher, whose mail I am re-working:
The new UK Open Government Licence is now out: <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm> <http://www.jordanhatcher.com/2010/uk-open-government-licence-now-out/> It's essentially an attribution only license, so inter-operable with lots of other licenses. They've explicitly noted interoperability with the Open Data Commons Attribution License: "These terms have been aligned to be inter-operable with any Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which covers copyright, and Open Data Commons Attribution License, which covers database rights and applicable copyrights." Two immediate things to note. I am not sure whether the "any" extends to Open Data Commons Attribution License. The "Open Data Commons Attribution License" per se is the attribution-only version of ODbL and distinct from it. I also at the moment have no idea whether the OS will / will have to move to this license or when. That said, in my first read I am very encouraged by the new attribution clause which seems far more practical in application than the previous one: "acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence; " I would speculate that clause 4 of the new CTs covers us. [Which will make me happy as I specifically designed it for governmental organisations] "4. At Your or the copyright holderÂ’s option, OSMF agrees to attribute You or the copyright holder. A mechanism will be provided, currently a web page <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution. " That being said, I'll be pushing for planet dumps and [X]API responses to include an XML element pointing to the same Attribution link to better discharge our distribution responsibilities. I look forward to any other comments. Anyone see any gotchas? Mike LWG
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