I'll be presenting with someone from the Newberry Library next month at AAG, so, in this particular case, I do know someone I can follow up with re: the licensing.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:08 PM, SK53 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > >
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