[cc-community] Geograph British Isles publishing entire cc-licensed archive via bittorrent

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Fri Jul 4 07:16:09 EDT 2008


On Friday 04 July 2008 04:46:49 Paul Dixon wrote:
> Geograph British Isles (http://www.geograph.org.uk) collects over a
> thousand geolocated, cc-licensed pictures of the British Isles every day
> - we've amassed over 860,000 so far.

Nice Project.
>
> We've just started publishing the entire archive in volumes of 50,000
> images plus RDF formatted metadata via bittorrent.
>
> If anyone would like access to lots of geolocated images, or is simply
> able to help us seed the torrents - be my guest! See
> http://torrents.geograph.org.uk for details.
>
> We're releasing a new volume every few days, it will take several weeks
> for us to release the whole archive.

The licensing situation is not explained that well. I think it could be 
improved.

From here:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/faq.php#opensource

"In addition, we require all submitters to adopt a Creative CommonsExternal 
link licence on their photographic submissions. While our volunteer 
photographers keep copyright on their photos, they also grant the use of 
their photographs in return for attribution (take a look at a typical 
submission for more details)"

This makes it seem like the cc BY license is the thing.

But looking at the typical submission here:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/14

it has a cc BY-SA 2.0 license.
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> Paul Dixon
> Geograph British Isles

all the best,

drew



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