On 22 February 2015 at 14:55, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
I see that the old OS OpenData Licence URL now redirects to OGL version 3 (
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/docs/licences/os-opendata-licence.pdf
) and as such we can safely assume that the OS consider the
Robert wrote:
I think that would be jumping the gun slightly. What I understand from
OS's answer to me, is that previously released datasets will remain
under the OS-ODL, and there is no automatic retrospective change of
the licence.
I think you are overly risk averse in this case and it could
That seems inconsistent. If OSM was concerned about the OS OpenData Licence
before, with respect to OS data, it should still be concerned with respect
to data produced by third parties that continue to use the licence.
The OS OpenData Licence is not dead if local authorities and other PSMA
Robert wrote:
I've now had a reply from OS about this. They say:
Previous such releases will not necessarily be included - only those
that we are informed about in the future.
If the dataset had already been notified to us, or we had approved
On 18 February 2015 at 13:52, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote:
The OS OpenData Licence is also used by Local Authorities and other
Public Bodies when licensing Geographic Data that's been derived from
OS Products under a Public Sector Mapping Agreement
On 18/02/15 13:52, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
In the immediate future, it won't have much effect, since we already
had separate permission to use all but one of the OS Open Data
products. The exception was CodePoint Open. Once OS updates their
licence page
On 19/02/15 10:58, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 18/02/15 13:52, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
In the immediate future, it won't have much effect, since we already
had separate permission to use all but one of the OS Open Data
products. The exception was CodePoint Open. Once OS updates their
On 19/02/15 11:11, Tom Hughes wrote:
Why would it make any difference? As far as I know Nominatim already
uses the Codepoint Open data?
Well, if it did, wouldn't it be able to find every postcode in Britain?
The Results from OpenStreetMap Nominatim section of the search results
often turns up
This is really good news and thank you Rob for flagging it. Thanks also
to the unknown folks at OS who have been working on this ... it follows
through on a promise made to me in 2010 that they would look at.
As cautioned by Rob, do wait until
In my view the additional bit about acquiring rights in the Information
(whether the Information is obtained directly from the Licensor or
otherwise) is a clarification; not a change to the effect of the licence
(when comparing the versions).
You applies to persons acquiring rights in the
I asked @owenboswarva on Twitter who is an active voice whom i trust on
open government data issues, and he said this:
IMO the only significant difference is v3 explicitly permits re-users
to list multiple attributions via a URI or link. ...the differences are
mostly just tidier syntax. If you
(I should clarify that by compatible I meant forward-compatible rather
than interoperable. OGL data is suitable as an input to a OdBL dataset, but
not vice versa.)
-- Owen (@owenboswarva)
On 18 February 2015 at 18:04, Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net wrote:
I asked @owenboswarva on Twitter who
On 18 February 2015 at 00:04, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 February 2015 at 23:57, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl
wrote:
I could imagine that OGL-3 has imported OS ODL's clause on
sublicensing that caused incompatibility with ODbL, which would make
OGL-3
On 17/02/2015 22:38, Rob Nickerson wrote:
Hi All,
At long last the open data licence scene in the UK has now become a
lot simpler as OS have ditched their OS OpenData Licence and replaced
it with the standard OGL:
On 17 February 2015 at 23:57, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl
wrote:
I could imagine that OGL-3 has imported OS ODL's clause on
sublicensing that caused incompatibility with ODbL, which would make
OGL-3 incompatible with ODbL.Do we have confirmation that this is not
the case, i.e.
Hi All,
At long last the open data licence scene in the UK has now become a lot
simpler as OS have ditched their OS OpenData Licence and replaced it with
the standard OGL:
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