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From September 2012, our license is the [http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ Open Database License (ODbL)]. Here is the [http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/ human readable summary] and here is [http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/ the full text].
Data contributed prior to September 2012 continues to be available from our archives under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ "CC-BY-SA", the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike version 2.0]
Both licenses are broadly the same, you can use the data without payment, provided that you "Attribute" and "Share Alike". However, the new license is specifically written for databases. It offers our project more protection. Attribution is more practical. It is a lot clearer on when "Share Alike" is triggered. It also allows you to make maps with layers from different data with incompatible licenses. In short, we want even more people to use our data.
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