On 12 August 2010 14:37, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > 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 Š 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.
Yes this was exactly the issue I was referring to, the compatibility between the OS OpenData License and the Contributor Terms. Thanks for clarify this rather better than I did! Cheers, -- Brian _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
