[OSM-legal-talk] Acceptable licences and splitting account edits

[James Livingston]

Hi all,

With the upcoming requirement to accept/decline the contributor terms, I 
thought it was about time to figure out whether and how I can agree to them. 
I've had a look around but can't see any FAQs for the contributor terms, just 
for the ODbL part. I'm sure I can't be the only person in this situation, so 
having a list of what to do in various situations would be quite handy.


Using my account I have added data that is under various licences, some of 
which will and some of which won't be compatible with ODbL. To be able to keep 
any of it, I'll presumably need to split my changesets up.
1) How do I move changesets to a new account?
2) How should they be split - one account for ODbL-compatible and 
ODbL-incompatible? One account per licence/source? Something else?

For each of the licenses/sources, I think we should have a definitive answer as 
to whether they are a) ODbL compatible, and b) Contributor Terms compatible. In 
my case I have my own contributions, CC-BY data, CC-BY-SA data, and public 
domain data.  In addition there is data that is derived from imagery from 
Yahoo, NearMap, and Bing.


Were those to questions answered and the list of okay licences listed anywhere? 
If not, can we get good answers and add them to a FAQ?


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James
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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Acceptable licences and splitting account edits

[Ed Avis]

James Livingston  writes:

>Using my account I have added data that is under various licences, some of 
>which
>will and some of which won't be compatible with ODbL. To be able to keep any of
>it, I'll presumably need to split my changesets up.

If Francis Davey's answer in another thread on this list is correct
 then you do
not need to do that.  All that's needed is to agree that the data is allowed
under the current licence terms (i.e. CC-BY-SA).  So you can click Accept to the
1.2.4 contributor terms anyway, if you wish to support the change.

It would be useful to have some way of labelling which changesets are ODbL-
compatible and which are not.  I guess that is a separate problem which would
need to be addressed if and when there was a change of licence.

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Ed Avis 


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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Acceptable licences and splitting account edits

[Robert Whittaker (OSM)]

On 13 April 2011 22:24, James Livingston  wrote:
> With the upcoming requirement to accept/decline the contributor terms,
> I thought it was about time to figure out whether and how I can agree to
> them. I've had a look around but can't see any FAQs for the contributor
> terms, just for the ODbL part. I'm sure I can't be the only person in this
> situation, so having a list of what to do in various situations would be 
> quite handy.
>
> Using my account I have added data that is under various licences, some of 
> which
> will and some of which won't be compatible with ODbL. To be able to keep any 
> of
> it, I'll presumably need to split my changesets up.
> 1) How do I move changesets to a new account?
> 2) How should they be split - one account for ODbL-compatible and
> ODbL-incompatible? One account per licence/source? Something else?
>
> For each of the licenses/sources, I think we should have a definitive answer 
> as to
> whether they are a) ODbL compatible, and b) Contributor Terms compatible. In
> my case I have my own contributions, CC-BY data, CC-BY-SA data, and public
> domain data.  In addition there is data that is derived from imagery from 
> Yahoo,
> NearMap, and Bing.

+1 for all of the above.

In addition, I'll also need a way to search for change-sets I created
with certain strings in the comments, and for edits I made that added
certain strings to the source=* tag.

As well as the licenses mentioned above, UK mappers will also need the
results of the promised "OSMF Legal Review" [1] of the Open Government
License, and the variant of this (which adds more stringent
attribution requirements) which is now being used by Ordnance Survey
for their OS OpenData products.

Robert

[1] See the entries for "OS StreetView" and "OS VectorMap District" in
the tables at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue

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Robert Whittaker

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