On Wed, Dec 01 2021, Brendan Barnes wrote:

> Hey John,
>
> The Legal Eagles of the OSMF Licence Working Group continue to ask for
> explicit permission (ie waiver) for CC BY 4.0. The rationale is at
> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/
>
> You can reach them via their contact details at
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licensing_Working_Group for any
> clarifications, but it appears they have already assessed the wording in CC BY
> 4.0.
>
> I know waivers can be difficult to obtain, and government entities may have
> internal red tape or few resources available to supply one to the OSM
> community. However it's in everyone's best interest, and once we have a
> waiver on file for the agencies' datasets, they are good to use
> indefinitely.

Also there are plenty of datasets for which waivers were obtained:

<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_data_catalogue>.

>
> ..Brendan
>
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:53, John Luan <john.lua...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi Guys,
>
>  Had a look at this license
>  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
>
>  Do we really need a waiver from the data provider?  something like this
>  
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/1/17/AADC_CC-BY_Permission_JK_signed.pdf
>  
>
>  My feeling is that as long as we list the data provider on the contributor
>  list, it should be fine.
>
>  Regards,
>  John
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Best,
Yuchen

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