Matthew Whilden <[email protected]> writes: > Hello everyone! > > Thanks for taking the time. I totally agree that the license is ... > interesting. My interest in the dataset arose because it is regularly > mentioned by local mapping folks as a good source we can pull from. This > seems to be largely because of written permission received several years > ago and mentioned in under King County Washington here: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#United_States > > I am not a license person so will happily call the license posted as not > compatible with ODbL etc. But then the question becomes... Does the earlier > permission we've logged control the issue? My, maybe naive, impression was > yes. > > Sorry if any of this is covered elsewhere. I've tried to do my homework but > there's a lot to chew off all at once.
Don't worry -- this is all very difficult. That permission appears to say that having the attribution on the Contributors page sufficees for their attribution requirement. That's great, but it doesn't talk about the rest of the terms. I am guessing that they have changed their terms from essentially cc-by to lots-of-stuff-including-indemnification between 2012 and 2022. I would suggest that you figure out if anyone local has a relationship with the county, and have that person talk to them about their license. That's a tricky conversation, so it should be someone who is good at difficult conversations!
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