Urrgg.. It was [0] that all Natural England "open" datasets (with the exception of Local Nature Reserves), were plain OGL licensed and could therefore be used. Looking again, it seems like NE have now added that annoying line at the top of the OGL licence that seems be be raising a few eyebrows:
"The same attribution statements must be contained in any sub-licences of the Information that you grant, together with a requirement that any further sub-licences do the same." This must be due to the Ordnance Survey as Natural England have not added this line to the NE non-GIS OGL licence [1]. Frustratingly this is a matter of much debate and is (hopefully) being addressed by both Office of Public Sector Information (the OS's regulator) and the Open Data User Group - slow progress I'm afraid. I would recommend checking for the individual licence included within each dataset's zip folder. If it's standard OGL then I say go for it :-) As with any external dataset, a straight import should be discussed on the mailing list first. You should also note that not all of the data is appropriate to OSM. Rob [0] http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120404182221/http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/copyright/ [1] http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/open-government-licence-NE_tcm6-30744.pdf p.s Please also register your concerns with the Office of Public Sector Information. Use the magic words "I wish to raise a formal complaint against Ordnance Survey" as this will ensure that your comments get logged and included in any stats OPSI can reference when leaning on the OS.
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