On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, John Smith wrote: > On 8 July 2010 07:13, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > > I don't think that they are compatible. > > My experience of law is small and it is an opinion only. > > I've said for a while that I agree in principal with the license > change, but the devil was always in the details. I was under the > impression that ODBL would be at the very least be compatible with > cc-by... > > > Certainly we would have to negotiate with federal and state governments > > to be sure that the imported stuff (coastline, boundaries, national > > parks etc) could stay. > > I have it on good authority that various departments are already > unhappy about sharing at all, and I highly doubt at this point in time > that most/all government departments would agree to anything less than > a guarantee attribution.
Bureaucrats have their own agendas and are most unlikely to want to share "property" GIS knowledge is power, undiluted and building up your own GIS threatens many systems. -- Tempt not a desperate man. -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au