Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Thread davespod
JohnSmitty wrote: > As I said before, you can easily do this with copyright, use CC-by-ND > instead of CC-by-SA, but if something is licensed as CC-by-SA it can > legally be derived from as long as the resulting work is also > CC-by-SA. What I am saying is that Creative Commons guidance appears t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-08 Thread davespod
Richard wrote: > For those who are similarly humourously challenged may I point out that I > have checked and no, the OS > OpenData licence does not refer to pubic sector information. [...] Oops! It may read as a sense of humour failure, but it was actually a literacy failure. Maybe, therefore,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, CTs and tracing GPS tracks

2010-08-18 Thread davespod
Jukka Rahkonen writes: >I have understood that uploaded GPS track logs that we have now are > effectively public domain. They are facts (even they do not allways > tell the truth) and they miss all the creativity so they are not > copyrightable. > Everybody can use at least individual tracks fo