On 09/12/2009, at 6:38 PM, Roy Wallace wrote: > "If you derive information from observing our PhotoMaps, and include > that information in a work, you will own that work, and may distribute > it to others under a Creative Commons licence." > > Does that not imply that the derived information may only be > distributed to others "under a Creative Commons licence"? Maybe I'm > reading this incorrectly?
As mentioned by others, the obvious thing to do is ask the NearMap guys (I've explicitly CC'd Alex, in case he isn't reading the list) what they meant - that's more important than what they actually wrote, since we'd obviously want to be nice to them. But just going off what is written there, if the person tracing owns it (in the copyright holder sense), then they can license it however they want. In that case, a CC license is just an option (and it says "may" not "may only" or "must"). With respect to ODbL, I think import CC-BY data into an ODbL database is fine - we'd fulfil the attribution requirement (CC-BY-SA wouldn't be, on the other hand). The problem if OSM goes ahead with the re-license would be the contributor terms, that means you can't import CC-BY data without the copyright holders approval. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
