On 24 January 2014 11:00, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <[email protected]> wrote: > If you read to the end of the OGL, you'll find that it helpfully says: > > "These terms are compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution > License 4.0 and the Open Data Commons Attribution License, both of > which license copyright and database rights. This means that when the > Information is adapted and licensed under either of those licences, > you automatically satisfy the conditions of the OGL when you comply > with the other licence." > > So you can be confident that if you have data under the OGL then you > would have sufficient rights to allow re-distribution under the ODC-By > licence, which in turn implies it's ok for OSM to distribute it under > the ODbL.
One thing that confuses me is how different licenses that require attribution can be compatible, or even how a work under one license requiring attribution can be re-used under that same license. The OGL requires the attribution 'Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0' (or a more specific attribution). Openstreetmap requires '© OpenStreetMap contributors'. So if someone re-uses Openstreetmap data that contains OGL data and only attributes it with '© OpenStreetMap contributors', would that not be a violation of the license of the OGL data, because the government is not attributed? Can someone clarify that? Kind regards, Matthijs _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
