[OSM-legal-talk] Results from license debate - assing (c) to OSMF

[Lars Aronsson]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

> I used "giving money" as an example but if you prefer you could 
> also think about someone who has mapped half of London for the 
> project and now wants to make a printed mash-up with non-free 
> data.

That's a perfectly fine argument.  It's just that the money issue 
is perhaps even more of a sore toe to step on than the licensing 
issue itself.  We just saw the money issue surface a few weeks ago 
with the (now removed) Mappam ads.

Perhaps related to PD is an event reported yesterday on Slashdot: 
There is a new version of the Open Library website.  With this 
version (found on http://demo.openlibrary.org) the project has 
redefined itself as a global free library catalog.  (Before it 
used to be a display website for out-of-copyright books scanned by 
the Open Content Alliance.)  It's not spelled out in clear, but 
the website seems to assume that book metadata (library catalogs) 
should be public domain.



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