The data are CC-BY-NC-SA. It's not something we have talked about in any detail, but in general I would assume we want to work OHM on license terms similar or equivalent to OSM (i.e., ODbL, which allow commercial usage). The academic world tends to release things CC-BY-NC-SA, but recent German case law interprets that as 'for private use only', e.g., publication in a journal published by a for-profit company, even if the author receives no payment, would (quite rightly IMO) be deemed commercial.
This does raise a problem because many in the digital humanities are fine with CC-BY-NC-SA, there is no consensus to accept eliminating the non-commercial restriction. It also means that certain fine digital humanities data collections are not directly usable in OHM. This is an issue which we need to discuss. Regards, Jerry PS. I have looked at time to time at historical boundaries in England & Wales: even quite recent boundary changes would be useful, just to interpret some current Open Data releases. On 25 March 2015 at 17:39, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Anyone want to work with me to get these boundary changes into OHM? > > http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/ > > -- > Tod Robbins > Digital Asset Manager, MLIS > todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins> > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > >
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