On 9/4/2011 6:51 PM, john whelan wrote:
The issue with using data like this with OSM is when you contribute it
under the new contribution terms you accept that OSM can change the
license at a later date. Practically speaking it makes it impossible
to respect any other license so currently only PD data and things you
have explicitly mapped yourself are safe.
In the OSM talk thread there are people who seem to think that all
imports are bad and I suspect the license change clause was put in by
them to discourage imports.
No, it was put in because we didn't want to have a rerun of all this
mess if something better came along next time.
Steve
Cheerio John
On 4 September 2011 19:35, Russell Porter <cont...@russellporter.com
<mailto:cont...@russellporter.com>> wrote:
Hi,
What is the status on the BC Open Data site launched earlier this
year?
License: http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/dbc/admin/terms.page?
It looks fine to me, but i know licensing is a big problem with osm.
In particular, i am looking at doing a manual import of protected
areas amd hiking trails (I imported a bunch of NrCan protected
areas a while back)
Finally, another license question. Since Sam V. (across canada
trails) released his contribs as PD, cant i just re-import them
into OSM on my account under odbl?
Thanks,
Russell
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