----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Collinson" <m...@ayeltd.biz>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-t...@openstreetmap.org>
Cc: <talk...@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open
Government Licence
At 02:47 PM 7/01/2011, David Groom wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Collinson" <m...@ayeltd.biz>
In the case of the UK OS, there is a switch from a potential requirement
for
level 4 attribution to a clear requirement for level 1, so the Open
Government Licence is definitely good news for handling highly granular
data.
Mike
with regards to the OS OpenData, the bit in the licence which I am unsure
about are the following lines, taken from
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/docs/os-opendata-licence.pdf
"You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge
the source of the Information : 'Contains Ordnance Survey data Crown
Copyright and database right 2011'"
"The same attribution statements must be contained in any sublicenses of
the information that you grant, together with a requirement that any
further sub-licences do the same"
Unfortunately the line above seems to me to extend the attribution
requirements required for OpenData to a much higher attribution
requirement than that required by the OGL .
Regards
David
Thanks, David. Bother. Either it refers only to Royal Mail-tainted
Code-Point data as immediately above the text or the OS are pulling a fast
one by re-writing the OGL ... making it effectively their old problematic
license. Assuming the latter we'll need to lobby. UK members of this
list may like to help by reading through the UK government's general
guidelines and see if anything is clearly conflicting with what they have
done:
Mike
It says "attribution statements" in the plural, therefore indicating to me
that it refers to both the OS attribution statement and the Royal Mail
attribution statement where applicable.
Regards
David
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licensing/guidance-for-information-providers.htm
The best I can find so far is that the layout of the page link in David's
email has this extra text not anticipated in the general guideline:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licensing/how-to-make-information-available.htm
"It incorporates the Open Government License for pubic sector information
(see below and
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/) which is
varied by the following terms:"
Mike
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