On 27 August 2010 10:28, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/27/2010 04:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> I would like to know if the new license is compatible with the old one. >> will we be able to use CC-SA-2.0 licensed data or we will have to get >> new contracts with the donators of data? >> for example, we have gotten much of the data for Kosovo donated under >> written contract for CC-SA-20, many users helped import this data into >> osm. >> even if those users agree to relicense, it does not mean that the >> original data can be relicensed. > > (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.) > > The new licence is incompatible with the old. BY-SA 2.0 data cannot be > placed under it without the rightsholder agreeing to relicence.
Indeed. > > But the new licence is more compatible with other licences (including the > old) where you want to produce "mash ups" and other works that combine data > from more than one source. We're drifting offtopic, but possibly what you mean is that you can combine tiles or other visual/audio works from more that one source. You can't combine osm ODbL data with CC-By-SA data in another project whereas you could until now. Cheers _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
