Hi Simon, Thanks for your reflection. I do see your point that we would retain the 'master copy' of the data and not be required to use other data that has been improved on. Personally, I think it could work. However, I'm thinking that the people above me who would be the ones to approve doing that, probably wouldn't want to, even if I took the time to discuss ODbL with them. I know someone else in my organization who tried to have a discussion to move towards ODbL in the past, and wasn't successful. Also, we are still hoping that the government provides something official for us with permissions to use at least for the series of maps we would like to produce since we did the work in conjunction with the government. We will see if they come through or not. :)
Thanks, Marcus -----Original Message----- From: Simon Poole [mailto:si...@poole.ch] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:53 AM To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Series of maps for Angola Marcus I'm not quite sure if there is a real issue. If you derive the boundaries you use from OSM, yes it is unlikely that it is non-substantial if you are using them for a whole country and the result is likely subject to share alike. However that only requires you to make the your modified data available on ODbL terms,it does not require that you have to use whatever changes somebody else makes to that dataset. Any third party sources you use for improving the boundaries would however have to be compatible with the ODbL 1.0. So it is quite possible for you to retain a "master copy" of whatever you think the language boundaries are. Naturally if you have improvements to the admin boundaries and your source is ODbL compatible (which it should be, see above) it might make sense to include such improvements directly into OSM. As has been already been suggested the alternative is to not use OSM boundaries at all and a third party source (which I doubt exists as open data globally). Simon _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
