The problem is that they have specified a license with attribution that is unreasonable for geodata (CC BY 3.0 and earlier).
Neither OpenStreetMap.org or most data consumers (e.g. MapBox) would meet the CC BY 3.0 and earlier attribution requirements. There are a few options for permission. The easiest might be to get them to grant permission to everyone under the CC0 license. This would meet the needs of us, as well as anyone else who would want to use their data Another option is to educate them about data licenses. I'd only go this route if you can't get the data under CC0. They've talked about concern about their data being used under less-free license. Leaving aside what less-free means, a feature of attribution only licenses like CC BY is that you are allowed to do this. On Aug 30, 2015 5:41 PM, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Stephan Knauss <o...@stephans-server.de> > wrote: >> >> Hello Steve, >> >> On 30.08.2015 17:14, Steve Bennett wrote: >>> >>> I wonder if there are any expert licence negotiators here who might be >>> able to get involved in the discussion. >> >> >> I'm no such expert, but they just require attribution. Did they state any >> specific way of doing so? If not, then maybe just mentioning in the wiki is >> fine for them? >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors >> > > Right. You don't need DELWP to give you any statement or permission in order > to import their data to OpenStreetMap or derive data for OpenStreetMap from > their data. > > _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
