On 11 July 2011 20:05, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <[email protected]> wrote: > What he's saying is there is no requirement under Australian Copyright > law (or CC licence) for a whole compilation/database/document to have > the same licence. It's the same way the Government can use Creative > Commons for official documents but they exempt the Coat of Arms from > that licence (because under Australian law, only officers of the > Commonwealth can use the Coat of Arms and they use it to signify > official documents/property). > > The CC licence calls a compilation of things a Collective Work and > "this does not require the Collective Work apart from the Work itself > to be made subject to the terms of this Licence." > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/legalcode > > Collective Works are not Derivative Works so this is okay!
Then why was there such a big fuss made over Haiti edits should be PD so that the UN could mix the data with other datasets... _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
