On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Donald Allwright wrote: > It would seem that being used as a basis for just > about everything means that no-one else can ever use those data without > paying the OS a fee. > Must be a nice little earner for them. Of course OpenStreetMap imposes > similar restrictions, > except that paying a fee is replaced with the far less onerous requirement > for derived works > to be CC-BY-SA licensed. (Ignoring the issues to do with why we need to > change the licence > for now).
Whether or not the CC-BY-SA requirement is less onerous rather depends on what you're doing with the data. I haven't looked at any OS licence conditions, but I imagine that if you derive your data from OS maps, then you can probably combine your data with another commercial map so long as you continue paying OS a licence fee. On the other hand, data derived from OSM must be CC-BY-SA and combining it with any commercial map would create a derived work which would need to be CC-BY-SA - it's unlikely that the commercial map supplier is going to allow this. Also, I suspect that selling maps is a nice little earner for people such as the land registry, so licensing them all as CC-BY-SA isn't in their interest (as much as it may be in the tax payer's interest). - Steve xmpp:st...@nexusuk.org sip:st...@nexusuk.org http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb