David,
David Murn wrote:
Which is completely fair. If you represent yourself as a non-profit,
you cant build up a collection of 'free' material then use it
commercially. What about for example if you represented yourself as a
non-profit wanting to use an artists song, but then decided to
re-licence that song and sell it on a CD commercially? Its a great way
to ensure no-one else ever trusts us with their data if we represent
ourselves as 'non-profit' again though.
I think it is quite usual for non-profits to license their output very
liberally (say, PD, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA), i.e. not reqesting that their
output be used non-commercially.
We are definitely non-profit and we should "represent ourselves as
non-profit" all the time, but of course you are right in saying that we
need to make that clear to people we're dealing with that the work which
we do in our non-profit organisation (or non-organisation) is not
limited to noncommercial use.
If you get something in writing, the best thing to get is something
where they allow you to use their data "for publication as part of
OpenStreetMap". That would then include the current and any future
license. Do not under any circumstances accept data that is released
"under CC-BY-SA" as this is a dead-end that will require re-negotiation
soon.
Wont anything in writing have to be re-negotiated soon?
No. If you get something in writing that says "you can use this for
OpenStreetMap" then wherever "OpenStreetMap" goes, the data goes too. No
re-negotiation necessary. We have had several such donations in Germany
where data was explicitly given to us not under license A or license B
but under the terms that "this data may be used in OpenStreetMap,
whatever their license".
Actually, sometimes it is easier to convince your counterpart in
government to give the data to you than to have them publish it under a
license (whatever the license is).
Bye
Frederik
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