I wonder if pointing the local governments to http://opendatacommons.org/ might be a good start. I've been considering providing some cities I've contact with a link to Open Data Commons to help them make the right decision.
Clifford On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Svavar Kjarrval <sva...@kjarrval.is> wrote: > Thanks for the response and the references. > > Maybe it's not as big as I think it is. While I would personally prefer > the pure public domain or anything closest to it, the entities are > sometimes reluctant to go that far. Some might accept CC0 (and PDDL > wouldn't be valid) but there are some which would want to require > attribution. Are there any CC-BY versions which have been determined to > be acceptable or any other similar licences? > > I agree with your reluctancy to suggest the ODbL due to future licence > changes. If the community decides to change the licence, there'd be so > much overhead in getting all the entities which published under other > (custom) licences to agree with the new one (even in principle). It's so > easy for them to say no if they foresee many potential future actions on > their part. > > Officials in Iceland don't usually regard granting such licences as a > huge undertaking so they're very prone to suggest making due with > granting the permission via e-mail in a fairly informal manner. If I > were to require a signed paper, some of them might change their minds, > so I'd rather not refuse those offers if I don't have to. The Icelandic > courts have determined that agreements reached/conveyed via email can be > binding but I don't know if that'd be valid under English law. > > - Svavar Kjarrval > > On 24/07/15 16:31, Simon Poole wrote: > > I suspect the problem is not quite as large as you think it might be. > > > > If they want to use a public licence, while it may not be actually > > explicitly said anywhere, CC0 or the PDDL are naturally totally > acceptable. > > > > For one offs/special permission I would suggest using > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/GettingPermission#Letter_Template3 > > > > > > These are essentially the two standard routes we can take were we don't > > need to make caveats about the data surviving a future licence change. > > > > Naturally there may be other "non-standard" licences that are acceptable > > and there is for example the ODbL which is usable, however has some > > issues particularly wrt a future licence change (and some more on top of > > that). But as said all tend to invoke additional complications which are > > best avoided. > > > > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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