I should have phrased that differently: "asking the individuals
in the mapper community ...". It's clear that somewhere in
the community as a whole there is the knowhow or the money
to review licenses correctly (I wouldn't have suggested
a register of allowed data sources otherwise).
That however does require the importer/mapper to raise the
issue to a level where that support exists. As the LWG has
pointed out, that hasn't worked in the past, and there is IMHO
no reason to believe that it will magically start working in the
future.
Further I believe you are mistaken wrt to the number of licenses,
particulary if you are looking a local and regional data sources.
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fairhurst" <rich...@systemed.net>
To: <legal-talk@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2
Simon Poole wrote:
Asking a mapper community with a majority of non-lawyer,
non-native English speakers to determine if two licenses are
compatible (one of which will always be quite complex) with
some degree of certainty is just a joke.
Not at all. Most imports will fall under one of a small number of licences.
It isn't beyond the skills of the community (and the professional hired help
that OSMF is able to arrange) to say whether these few licences are
compatible with ODbL+CT; and to publish this information for the benefit of
future mappers.
In addition, some licences (such as the new UK Open Government Licence)
openly avow compatibility with ODC's attribution licences (ODC-By and ODbL).
Richard
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