On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been taught by OSM to be doubly sure on the license of data, and it > probably differs from usual use because: it's out of academia; it can be > used commercially; the attribution to UBC PlantOps is not always visual. I > had also already sent an e-mail asking the Records Manager. Well, you (or I or any other OSM contributor) can't speak on behalf of OSM and the OSM Foundation. We can't accept a contract on behalf of the Foundation, etc. So there is nothing that you can do to make this okay, without help or some additional steps. 1) So, you can ask the data donor to agree to contribute their data under CC-BY-SA v2.0 the current OSM license. You should also tell them that OSM will transition to ODbL v1.0 in the near future and they should agree to that as well. If they agree to that, get it in writing, copy it to [email protected], make a note on the wiki[1] as well. Then follow the rest of the import guidelines [2] and check that the data is actually of high enough quality to be worth contributing. 2) get them to publish their data under the PDDL[3]. This is a public domain equivalent and PDDL data can be imported to OSM if the data meets the rest of the import guidelines. 3) or, consider their license, and present it to [email protected] for consideration. Try to point out the good and bad points of the license and the potential data contribution for the OSMF, they really do have better things to do that to read every last bizarre home-grown license from contributors who don't want to participate in OSM. Donors expecting anything beyond mention on the Attribution page are probably expecting too much. Especially small donors. To review, each of us can discuss, guide, and encourage individual donors. With experience we can even suggest what terms are more or less likely to be accepted by OSMF. We can't decide what OSMF will accept and we can't accept terms on behalf of OSMF. Hope this doesn't dampen your enthusiasm. Just take all the steps and ask for help when you need it, perhaps at legal-talk or import lists. Keep traffic to [email protected] to a minimum, they're only a few volunteers. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_guidelines [3] http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/ _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
