On 4 July 2011 13:53, Michael Collinson <m...@ayeltd.biz> wrote: > I am now pleased to announce that the licensing group of the Ordnance Survey > has explicitly considered any licensing conflict between their license and > ODbL and "has no objections to geodata derived in part from OS OpenData > being released under the Open Database License 1.0." At the moment, this > excludes Code-Point Open, (postcode) data since they are awaiting a response > from Royal Mail who have rights in that dataset.
That's fantastic news -- thanks to everyone who was involved with getting this agreement from Ordnance Survey. :-) There are, however, a couple of points with regard to OS OpenData that I think still need to be addressed: 1/ The statement from OS mentions the Open Database License (ODbL), but not Database Contents License (DbCL). I believe that the plan is to release OSM under the combination ODbL+DbCL. ODbL explicitly doesn't cover the copyright in individual database items, relying instead on another license for those [1]. So presumably we also need confirmation from Ordnance Survey that they're happy for their content to be distributed under DbCL (or at least under the ODbL+DbCL combination). 2/ Clarification on the interpretation of the contributor terms. Since Michael Collinson's earlier post to this list [2], it appears from the LWG minutes that LWG has backed away from confirming this as an official policy. (A draft statement was considered but not adopted on 21st June [3], and nothing further was mentioned about it at the following LWG meeting [4].) Two messages I've sent to OSMF asking for confirmation that this is their official interpretation have also gone unanswered. I appreciate that this clarification of the CTs may be a legally delicate and people may be busy with other things, but it would be good to know how things are progressing here. In particular, are LWG and/or OSMF intending to issue an official statement at some point, and if so what sort of time scale might we expect? Robert. [1] http://www.opendatacommons.org/faq/licenses/#db-versus-contents [2] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-June/011931.html [3] https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_121dzjmk5c5 [4] https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_122fxn8g2ck -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
