On 22 February 2015 at 14:55, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see that the old OS OpenData Licence URL now redirects to OGL version 3 ( > http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/docs/licences/os-opendata-licence.pdf > ) and as such we can safely assume that the OS consider the licence dead. > Other UK agencies who have released data under this licence should update > their text accordingly, if this doesn't happen then a polite email to alert > them of the change would be encouraged. I see no reason to wait for this > change to be made prior to using the data in OpenStreetMap. We have a green > light lets not convince ourselves it's any other colour :-) > > In terms of public rights of way released under the OS OpenData licence, > this means there is nothing blocking our use of this data.
I think that would be jumping the gun slightly. What I understand from OS's answer to me, is that previously released datasets will remain under the OS-ODL, and there is no automatic retrospective change of the licence. OS themselves have now updated their licence pages for their own OS OpenData Products, so the current releases of these can now be used under the OGL. (This doesn't change that much for OSM, since we could already use most of those datasets anyway under a separate agreement. But it does mean we can now use CodePoint Open.) Any new datasets released under PSMA exemptions (e.g. Rights of Way GIS datasets from local councils) will presumably be under the OGL by default too. However, for third-party data that was previously released under the PSMA exemption rules under the OS-ODL, I don't believe that OS could re-licence them even if they wanted to -- there's no up-grade clause in the OS-ODL, and OS doesn't own all the rights in the data to allow them to make that decision. Thus even if OS are happy with a change, it's up to the third-party rights holder whether or not they wish to re-licence each dataset. As far as I understand their reply, OS have said that they will be happy for OS-derived datasets previously released under OS-ODL to be re-licenced under the OGL, and will be amending their guidance accordingly. We can only hope that the OS guidance will also make it clear that third-parties are free to re-licence existing datasets, and ideally encourage them to do so. Unless or until any re-licencing occurs, I'm afraid that the datasets would remain available only under the OS-ODL, and so cannot be used in OSM. So I think we'll just have to be patient and wait a little longer... Once OS release their updated PSMA guidance, we can presumably begin contacting third parties asking asking them to re-licence their existing datasets under the OGL. Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
