On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, Rob Nickerson wrote:
The email below is from TfL announcing the release of the cycle data. I'm
copying in Martin to this email as he was working on this Talent
Directory project so can hopefully provide a comment on the licence.
Thanks - Rob. Will be e-mailing tomorrow to give updated info on the
license - there have been various discussions over the last month on this,
which I will report back on.
Taking a look myself it is an OGL v2 licence which is good. TfL muddy the
water slightly in that they are applying the licence to data obtainable
via an API. They therefore include statements about it being the users
responsibility to check the page for updates to the licence and that by
running a new API call you are accepting the new licence. For us I think
we are fine in that we download the data once (rather than regularly via
their API) and the licence when you download it grants perpetual use.
OGL v2 can sometimes suffer from it's clause about not covering third
party rights the data provider is not entitled to provide (e.g. Royal
Mail Postcodes) but a previous (off list) chat with Martin suggested we
are ok on that front.
Yep, again I'll update on that tomorrow. It is looking good to me, but I'm
seeking a definitive view from the OSMF LWG now that I've obtained full
details of the provenance of the data. This has taken a bit longer than
hoped.
Martin, ** CycleStreets - For Cyclists, By Cyclists
Developer, CycleStreets ** https://www.cyclestreets.net/
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