Simone,
The ODbL is still a "BY-SA" license but written with databases rather than
creative works in mind ("ODC-BY-SA"). So my opinion is that Frederik's advice
is the right one, it depends on how narrow or wide-ranging the original
authority was.
At the moment, we are simply trying to methodically establish where issues
might exist. There is no need to make formal contact ... a license change has
neither been decided nor made.
As for later, would a simple courtesy notification email or letter work? "For
your information, OSM is migrating to a new license under broadly the same
terms [*] but with greater clarity. The text of the license can be seen at
xxxxx, if you have any concerns with us continuing to use your data, please
contact me at yyyy".
Mike
License Working Group
[*] I realise that at a fine-grained level that is currently a matter of debate!
At 10:52 AM 14/03/2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Simone Cortesi wrote:
>>The problem I see is that I asked the various administrations for
>>derivation rights under CC-BY-SA licence.
>>Clearly I do not want to go back and ask them again for agreement
>>under a new licence.
>
>If the authorisation they have given you is reasonably wide-ranging (as in
>"your data is public anyway, feel free to import") then by all means leave it
>in. If it has been given to you under CC-BY-SA and you cannot be bothered to
>talk to them, then compile a list of people that have to be contacted and ask
>someone else from the Italian community to take over. If they say no, or
>cannot be contacted, then the data has to be removed.
>
>I think that if your contribution was significant, e.g. the conversion work
>was non-trivial and a kind of creative act, then you have a say - this means
>you could say "no I will not relicense" even if the original government source
>says "fine with me", but not the other way round (you cannot say "sure I'll
>relicense" when they say no...)
>
>BTW has anyone talked to the TIGER import people yet? Someone recently argued
>on the lists that the TIGER import was quite complex with all that un-braiding
>and so on, and that the TIGER data in our database could not be considered PD
>because the import process was a creative work in its own right. If this is
>true, then that would mean that those who did the import could now "just say
>no" and we'd then lose TIGER and everything that was since built on the
>import. I'd hazard the guess that this makes those who did the TIGER import
>some of the most powerful people in OSM at the moment ;)
>
>Bye
>Frederik
>
>--
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