Eric, That's great to know! On a related note: we need to update this documentation ASAP: http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/copyright
Is this something I could patch? Or do we want to draft it collaboratively? On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:12 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Very important points Jerry. Thank you! I guess I'll start tracing these > by hand in JOSM/geojson.io then. ;-) > > A more direct route could be to discuss a change in licensing directly > with The Newberry. Sounds like the idea is off the table for now though. > > > –Tod > > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:08 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 >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Tod Robbins > Digital Asset Manager, MLIS > todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins> > -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins>
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