Hi All, So I've been thinking a lot about non-commercial licenses. The reason is there are many humanitarian organizations that are releasing data CC BY-NC or CC BY-SA-NC. I've been thinking through the issues with this and trying to improve HOT's points about why using NC licenses is not recommended.
I wanted to make sure I have a couple scenarios right and also ask if anyone else on the list has other scenarios they would like to suggest. 1. I used OSM as the basemap for my map of refugee camps, the camp data is my organizations and licensed CC BY-NC. The data for OSM and the camp data is never combined. I release my map under CC-BY-NC. I believe this is okay. 2. I have a spreadsheet of hospital locations licensed CC-BY-NC, I use OSM to geocode these locations. I believe this can't happen because of the incompatibility of the two licenses. 3. I export school locations from OSM and then append capacity of the schools and other information to the exported data. I then release the data CC BY-NC on my organizations website. Also can't happen because of the incompatibility of licenses. Is my reading of these okay? Are there other potential use cases you can think about? I do worry about pointing some of these out potentially and then organizations just not releasing the data (perhaps in example 3). Thanks, -Kate _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
