Notwithstanding what the wiki says, in this case I think it's pretty damn clear that the author of the data wants it to be used in OSM. Initially they released it under cc-by-4.0, but upon being told they'd need to sign an explicit release, they did exactly that.
Perhaps a lawyer could explain how this varies from the release implicit in the CTs, but I don't see a difference in intent. Original Message From: Rafael Avila Coya Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2016 18:56 To: Martin Koppenhoefer Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Imports] Data import from WRI Forest Atlas of Cameroon Hi, Martin: On 27/07/16 10:32, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 2016-07-26 19:47 GMT+02:00 Rafael Avila Coya <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > That license Joachim is referring to, is a license we have used many > times in the past, for many imports. There has never been any > concern about the validity of it. > > > > > Is this template approved/endorsed by the OSMF? I wonder because the > contract mentions: "The citation will be showed on the following web > page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution"; > Besides "showed" is US English (I would have expected this to be > "shown"), how does this wiki page relate to these pages? Those templates, as I told already to Christoff, are the ones the imports guidelines wiki refers to in Step 3 of the wiki. I don't have any idea if the OSMF has to endorse that or not. I am not expert in legal matters, but I guess if I donate whatever to the OSMF, with whatever document, the OSMF can do whatever they like. If data is given to the OSMF with the ODbL license, I can't imagine the OSMF not giving permission to the OSM contributors to use that data for import into OSM. > > - http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright (in the "contributors" paragraph) > > - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors > > Are all of them on the same level? Shall importers add the source > reference to all these pages? Should we merge the 2 pages? I would > expect this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors to be > the important one, because it is linked from the "official" (non-wiki) > copyright page. I don't know if they have to be merged or not. I leave that decision to others. Cheers, Rafael. > > Cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
