[OSM-legal-talk] ODBL and imports

2014-04-25 Thread Erik Johansson
I've been thinking about this for quite some time, but have not been able to come up with anything useful so please help me. I think we have a big problem with the choice of CT + ODBL, it is very unclear to people that ODBL data can not be uploaded to Openstreetmap. It's obvious that the data is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL and imports

2014-04-25 Thread Simon Poole
The LWG might actually publish a formal guideline on the subject, but my informal 2c for now: - it is fairly clear that you -could- import 3rd party ODbL licensed data under the CT (naturally assuming every other box for an import has been ticked too). The CTs only require compatibility with the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL and imports

2014-04-25 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: - which leads to the question -should- you import ODbL licenced data. Obviously the answer to that is highly subjective, my position is that I wouldn't, but others may differ. So, you mean that the main objection to import

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL and imports

2014-04-25 Thread Simon Poole
Am 25.04.2014 16:17, schrieb Pieren: ... So, you mean that the main objection to import ODBL data is a future licence change. But I remember some past messages here or elsewhere that the licence process is so heavy and requires so high acceptance that a licence change is almost

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL and imports

2014-04-25 Thread Simon Poole
Am 25.04.2014 14:00, schrieb Erik Johansson: http://www.mapillary.com/osm.html I probably should have added that I see no problem at all with the terms Mapillary specifies, since for contributions to OSM it only specifies that it should happen under the terms of the CTs. IMHO naturally.