Thats fantastic - thanks for working on this. I have a viewer of OS and OSNI boundary data here:
http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/os_opendata.html D On 7 December 2016 at 09:05, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Dave! > > Some great work there! > > On 07/12/16 03:33, Dave Corley wrote: > > I've received clarification that while the CC-BY 4.0 license is > > not suitable for merging with OSM > > Not quite. The problem is that CC-BY 4.0 on it's own is vague and may > or may not be suitable for OSM. > > It's the "attribution" requirement. Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the CC-BY > 4.0 licence[1] covers that and says that you need to attribute them > "in any reasonable manner requested by the Licensor". So the Licensor > is allowed pick how you attribute them. > > If someone were to say "You have to put my/our name on every map you > make based on that" that would be a problem for OSM. (a) It's wildly > impractical because there's be thousands of them on every little map > and (b) the OSM licence doesn't/can't require that users-of-OSM have > to do that, so it's not even something "we" can require. > > If someone were to say "Yeah, the OSM Contributors wikipage[2] is > totally fine for the BY requirement!" then we'd be all set for OSM usage! > > In a way, just saying "It's CC-BY!" isn't really open data, since it > leaves some important conditions unset. However most users of CC data > (e.g. films, art) don't have this problem. > > However, I think we're golden, because the data.gov.ie licence page[3] > says if using data from many people you can link to a page which lists > the data.gov.ie/etc attribution. OSM has ~1 million contributiors (so > that's the "multiple sources" covered), and you have to link to the > OSM copyright page[4] which links to the OSM Contributors page[2]. > > So according to the data.gov.ie, and OSM licence, we can import > data.gov.ie CC-BY 4.0 stuff into OSM! \o/ > > Now if OSM were to change it's licence again, we might be in problem. > But no-one wants to go through that again. But that hasn't stopped > anyone before. > > So.... thanks Dave, but looks like it was all OK from the start. Ah > well, at least they know about us. > > > the granting of explicit permission to use CC-BY 4.0 datasets by > > the relevant owner is allowed. > > In theory, this is true of any closed dataset. Anyone can say "100% > closed copyright, all rights reserved, except OSM, yous can trace". > Just like the Bing aerial imagery. > > > [1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode > [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors > [3] https://data.gov.ie/licence > [4] https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYR9D0AAoJEOrWdmeZivv2JYcH/ikirdyJPmd8EDmzM0OoI0yD > TphjnQlZYTSmi7k1TgMIBebbgKSSOn3HPVulPnFZiDGyK7w0WrCQJ+gXken4OZMy > RKSpl/2m+vNv7atXXIH0Q76ErnMb2l9fz9vJGK13Sydweuuu5my3Uc1v+cskL5CV > bZXGbY3ZtWQkK/i8iOUnY8l5lICrW8WH42YI04j7DS/z8ovIKNcO7gX6tB8EHQ2G > al9bLNwyP2NwTyJe5iEeI3G1G4Fh7LQBR+7DFZvJeSJluA1ARqjh+GXHJ4owpzU8 > 2ioJN7Bv6xGdnQZM3lhn9HD3vSUs1GAg+W+kTLV/hv16FfoO1OKXjNYT/MpqBTc= > =IrDX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
