[Labs-l] Licensing: CC vs. ODbL vs. ???

Thu Sep 27 20:20:28 UTC 2012

The mobile team needs to know how to proceed as well. We use OSM tiles
for our near by view within the Wikipedia app.

--tomasz

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Andrew Bogott <abogott at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>     On IRC this morning, jongleur points out that OpenStreetMap no longer
> uses CC-by-SA; their data is now licensed under ODbL.  There's a lengthy
> explanation of the rationale for the change here:
> http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License
>
>     Currently the labs Terms of Use says " all content must be freely
> licensable under an applicable creative commons license."  That seems to
> exclude OSM data, which surely is not our intent.  I note that the item just
> before that (about software licenses) uses a more expansive term, "
> OSI-approved open source licenses."  Is there a similar umbrella term that
> we can use for content that would include CC-like licenses without
> restricting users to actual, literal CC licensing?
>
> -Andrew
>
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