2009/12/11 Liz <[email protected]> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: > > The long awaited National Public Toilet Map has been released in XML > > (but not under CC-BY like many reports recommended) @ > > http://data.australia.gov.au/610 > > > > Instead, it's a click through licence that amongst other Proprietary > > terms requires anybody with database access to accept these terms > > again (but viewing generated map tiles is okay): > > "3.2 You may not sublicense your rights under these Terms to any > > person. If you require another person to access the Database for the > > Permitted Purpose (including a person you engage to design or build a > > Derivative Product on your behalf), that person must obtain a copy of > > the Database from the www.australia.gov.au website and comply with the > > Terms of this licence." > > > > Two steps forward, one step back. > > - Alex > > > a clear piece of evidence that getting Au data licensed for ODbL is going > to > be like pushing excreta uphill > > I may be reading it wrong, but getting the data to work with cc-by-sa would not be possible either. Essentially, with OSM, you are doing sublicensing all the time due to the way it is working. But I could be understanding wrongly. In the case of Google, since they don't give you access to the database, it doesn't matter. I don't think it is here an odbl problem.
Emilie Laffray
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