Hello, I'm trying to help a nice user who has interesting data ready to import, but there's a potential problem: he already published the same data elsewhere under a Creative Commons 2.5 BY-NC-ND license. Unfortunately I don't know enough about licensing. Since he generated the data himself, would it be legal to publish the same data under OSM's ODbL?
There was one answer in the forum (http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=340685) saying: "If he owns the rights to the data, he is able to publish the data under further licences. CC and CT/ODbL are non-exclusive licences." I just want to be extra sure that nothing has been overlooked. We verified that the publisher did not impose any contract requiring transfer of property rights, so I guess it is fine as long as we don't take the published data and instead we take the data received directly from the user. Even though the result would be exactly the same, any attribution to the publisher would clearly be a mistake under any perspective. Is this correct? -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "The speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months." (Moore's law) "The speed of software halves every 18 months." (Gates' law) _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
