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It's unclear to me how Overture manages to "license wash" OSM data here. > Transportation: The OMF’s Transportation layer represents a worldwide road network d
by polemic 3y ago
It's unclear to me how Overture manages to "license wash" OSM data here.
> Transportation: The OMF’s Transportation layer represents a worldwide road network derived from data in the OpenStreetMap project. This community-built data has been recast into the Overture data format which provides consistent segmentation of the data and a linear reference system to support additions of data such as speed limits or real-time traffic.
The OSM ODbL is crystal clear that OSM contributors have to be credited. I don't believe that CDLA Permissive v2.0 magically allows Overture to bypass it.
--EDIT: I missed that they're using different licenses per dataset, the transport theme is OBDL, which I'm sure will trip up users who are not careful.
- uneekname 3y agoOverture could be seen as hostile to OpenStreetMap, but I do not think they are washing any licenses here. The article explicitly says that the CDLA license applies to data provided by Meta and Microsoft, not data from OSM. I think it's unfortunate that Meta and Microsoft aren't contributing their data to OSM instead of releasing it under a different license, but c'est la vie.
- mikeyouse 3y agoSeems that any new data generated out of Overture Maps could be uploaded to OSM if they chose to do so? The CDLA license is permissive; https://cdla.dev/permissive-2-0/ https://cdla.dev/permissive-2-0/ My read is that they're not going to avoid credited OSM, but rather they're going to credit OSM / maintain the license for the parts they use from OSM and then the rest will be CDLA 2.0 licensed for anyone to use.