[talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

2009-12-09 Thread Roy Wallace
If The License Change goes ahead, will that have any influence on, say, the legality of tracing from nearmap imagery? Does it appear as though some contributions will have to be removed if The License Change happens? If so, what kind of contributions?

Re: [talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

2009-12-09 Thread Liz
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: Nearmap allows in their TC's to derive data, the data is under the license of the person deriving it chooses to release it under. The bigger issue was the AU Govt data, but that has fixed it self since it was relicensed as cc-by from cc-by-sa but it

Re: [talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

2009-12-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:26 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/9 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: If The License Change goes ahead, will that have any influence on, say, the legality of tracing from nearmap imagery? Does it appear as though some contributions will have

Re: [talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

2009-12-09 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: Although. If CC-BY-SA isn't likely to stand in Australia for OSM it isn't likely to stand for anyone else either If its good enough for the Au guvmint, who can afford lawyers, it is probably protective in Au. -- You have had a long-term

Re: [talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

2009-12-09 Thread James Livingston
On 09/12/2009, at 6:38 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: If you derive information from observing our PhotoMaps, and include that information in a work, you will own that work, and may distribute it to others under a Creative Commons licence. Does that not imply that the derived information may only be

Re: [talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

2009-12-09 Thread Ben Last
I'm sure Alex is reading the list, but I am too :) If there are concerns with our license, we'll work to address them - a key goal of ours is to support OSM and that was a firm requirement when the license was drafted. Cheers Ben 2009/12/9 James Livingston doc...@mac.com On 09/12/2009, at

Re: [talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

2009-12-09 Thread Alex Kwiatkowski
I've just got a response from our legal team and this is what they say. We are always keen to clear up any uncertainties regarding derived works. Our requirement is that derived works are availlable to others, using a Creative Commons style license. In other words, we share the same approach as