On 06/12/2009, at 10:05 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > James Livingston wrote: >> For example, I have inferred road positions from the CC-BY-licensed >> Queensland DCDB-lite dataset, and have uploaded national park and >> world-heritage areas from the CC-BY dataset on data.australia.gov.au. >> As I'm not the copyright holder of those base datasets, I don't see >> how I could agree to the relicensing, or contributor terms which >> allow for future relicensing. Does that mean everything I've ever >> contributed (even my own work) has to be deleted? Probably. > > Are we sure that CC-BY is any more incompatible with ODbL that what we're > doing now? I mean, nominally we have CC-BY-SA but data.australia.gov.au is > not listed on the maps anywhere...
data.australia.gov.au is just a repository for data, the actual copyright holders are various departments in various levels of government. For example various ways have source=au.qld.dcdb_lite attribution=Based on data from State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Resource Management) 2009 or source=ABS_2006 attribution=Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data and the ABS is mentioned on the Attribution wiki page. Aside from any incompatibility between CC-BY and ODbL, the contributor terms would prevent us using CC-BY data in OSM unless the copyright holder agrees to the terms. I think that by satisfying the ODbL you also satisfy all the conditions of CC-BY, so it would be distributable under the terms of ODbL - but strictly speaking I don't think you could say it's all ODbL-licensed. > If we're talking about a lot of data, and if you have put proper "source" > tags in or tagged your changesets in a way that makes them discernible, then > we can find a way to open a new account and transfer this "tainted" data to > the new account and you then accept the relicensing with your old account. As above, I think everyone has been putting those tags (and similar ones for other datasets) on the ways, so hopefully they'd be extractable. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk