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From: "Mike Dupont" <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-t...@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 6:32 AM
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] importing ODBl data
Hi there,
I have a question about imports and the ODBl,
I see that some sources have decided to dual license the data
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
But how can some third parties data be compatible when the CT says it
can change any time, surly they might be compatible with the current
instance of the license, but how can they be compatible with future
versions of the license when they are no known?
I think the answer to your question is covered by the "clarification on
license compatibility" issued by the LWG on 19 July 2011 [1]
"The intent of the Contributor Terms as regards contributions that come from
or are derived from third parties is:
1) To ask the contributor to be *reasonably* certain that such data can be
distributed under the specific specific licenses, as explicitly listed in
clause 3 of the contributor terms: CC-BY-SA 2.0 and ODbL 1.0.
............Should the license change in the future, continued distribution
of some data that comes from or is derived from third parties may no longer
be possible. If this happens, it will have to be removed. This will be the
responsibility of OSMF."
Should the licence change to something other than CC-BY-SA 2.0 or ODbL 1.0,
OSMF have guaranteed that they will identify and remove any data
incompatible with that licence.
Incidentally, I believe that the burden OSMF have imposed upon themselves
makes it almost certain that no other licence than CC-BY-SA 2.0 or ODbL 1.0
would ever be used.
David
[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/preview?id=1-sm2NCRPBKQnb3dn8CFORi5RNE_JpdG02rwYVjLJppI&pli=1
How can a contributor import any data and keep the data open to
license change? How can you keep any imports at all from people who
have not agreed to the CT directly?
thanks
mike
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