Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licenses suitable for import

Tobias, the best option for ensuring the data is usable by OSM is an explicit statement of permission for the OpenStreetMap project to incorporate and use the data under the project's terms. This is generally considered preferable to a dataset that is ODbL-licensed without such a statement.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licenses suitable for import

I'm very curious about the cc-by compatibility. The Red Cross is doing a very large mapping project in West Africa, ground truthing a lot of the data created by remote mappers during ebola. As part of the project we want to release the data both in OSM and in a more complete form (not all data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licenses suitable for import

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Tobias Wendorff wrote: > Dear list, > > could you please recommend me licenses for releasing data to ODbL? > From my point of view, compatible licenses are CC-license without > "SA" and "BY" and (only if possible) CC0 and PD or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licenses suitable for import

Diane Any comment from CC on the -other- issues that have been raised wrt CC by 4.0 and ODbL compatibility and in general with the way it works for databases? Simon Am 18.03.2016 um 17:19 schrieb Diane Peters: > Just to be clear on the attribution removal requirement in CC's > licenses, Erik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licenses suitable for import

Just to be clear on the attribution removal requirement in CC's licenses, Erik asserted: I wish people would stop releasing data with CC-by; "you have to attribute us, but you have to remove that attribution when ever we want you too" which is not present in ODbL so There is no such absolute