On 31 October 2010 23:29, Robin Paulson <robin.paul...@gmail.com> wrote: > the auckland city council has this as its copyright notice. how > compatible would this be with cc-by-sa, or odbl? > > http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/en/pages/Copyrightstatement.aspx >
It doesn't look to be. > if it isn't, which items are incompatible? > As Richard says, its not at all well drafted. One sentence appears to give you a right only to download copies for non commercial use, the next few sentences appear to be a more general right to reproduce, without that restriction. Its possible a court could construe this to mean the licence is intended to be a non-commercial one, but that is unclear. More crucially, it grants a licence to reproduce not to adapt or perform (both of which are granted by CC-BY-SA) and it restricts "misleading" use which may not be the same thing as the distortion forbidden by CC-BY-SA clause 4(d). Data is more tricky - I'm not familiar with NZ case law on database copyright etc, but I think ODBL might similarly be problematic. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
