On 12/08/10 12:51, Brian Quinion wrote:
Could you point to the document from OS that gives "explicit
permission"? I would love to find such a document.
It's here:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/docs/licence.pdf
Unfortunately it does not, as far as I can see, allow anybody who has
used, or plans to use, OS OpenData to sign the CTs as things stand
because it requires:
> You must:
>
> * acknowledge the copyright and the source of the Data by including any
> attribution statement specified by the Data Provider. If no specific
> statement is provided please use the following:
>
> Contains [insert name of Data Provider] data © Crown copyright and
> database right
>
> * include the same acknowledgment requirement in any sub-licences of
the Data
> that you grant, and a requirement that any further sub-licences do
the same;
Which is clearly in conflict with the CTs which require you to grant
OSMF a license to sublicense any data you upload under a license of
their choosing subject only to a constraint that the license they choose
is "open and free" which clearly does not restrict their choice to
licenses that would pass on the attribution requirement.
Tom
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Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu)
http://compton.nu/
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