On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Did imports and Nearmap tracing in Australia start before the > relicensing effort, or were you simply not aware of it, or did you not > take it seriously? We started imports a while ago, with the first I recall in 2007. In 2007 I was not aware of an attempt to relicense OSM, but it was probably started by then. What I read on signup was CC-by-SA, and no talk of any future change.
Then ODBL was presented, with a fanfare, and later the "Contributor Terms" crept out, more quietly. At the stage of announcement of ODBL we were already using CC-by-SA data from the Australian government. At a later date this data was changed to CC-by, and we would be able to retain it under ODBL, but not with the Contributor Terms which had by then been published. Nearmap chose to make their orthophotos available to OSM under the current licence, CC-by-SA. The email to a few of us yesterday indicated firmly that Share-Alike was very important to NearMap, and that there is no possibility of the share alike being removed at a later stage. So ODBL & contributor terms which preserve share-alike would possibly be acceptable. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
