<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I think Richard was just making a short turn of phrase, speeding by the details.<br>Just as you are using a phrase when saying "bryt dina ben" ..<br><br>The key point to remember is that at the core, we all share enthusiasm for<br>OpenStreetMap. The details of how OSM works with the wider world are<br>an unfortunate chore we have to sort out, so that next time a broadcaster<br>wants to use Baghdad, or someone wants to print a map, there's no problem.<br>No one wants to sue anyone .. we just want to make maps!<br><br>There are many issues and positions which need consideration and decision,<br>and a brief summary of that, so that an expert in these issues can give advice,<br>would be incredibly useful at this point. That might be a CC
lawyer (they<br>certainly are aware of all the options) or another lawyer. Can we take a NPV <br>and craft a page or two on the wiki?<br><br>Mikel<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Lars Aronsson <lars@aronsson.se><br>To: Richard Fairhurst <richard@systemeD.net><br>Cc: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org<br>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:43:10 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] INANAL - But these guys are<br><br><div>Richard Fairhurst wrote:<br><br>> I'm guessing that it's useful to ask CC lawyers questions about <br>> interpretation/meaning of a CC licence. I guess it's not useful to ask <br>> them big-picture questions like "should we just go PD instead?".<br><br>You're trying to make an abstract theory of a very easy and <br>practial issue. You simply cannot "go PD". Dozens of OSM <br>contributors would break your
legs if you tried. However, this <br>last summer I printed a map and sent to the anniversary party <br>where everybody happily signed it and nobody protested against the <br>way I reused the OSM data. This is a proof of what you can <br>apparently get away with,<br><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Osm_2nd_anniv_poster.jpg">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Osm_2nd_anniv_poster.jpg</a><br><br>Here's the entire text:<br><br>-----<br>Open Street Map<br>of Europe<br><br>Based on free* geographic information from<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org">www.openstreetmap.org</a><br>as of July 2006<br><br>* Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0<br>-----<br><br>More attribution than that is not needed. Or sue me.<br>But doing so now is hard if you signed that poster.<br><br><br>-- <br> Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se)<br> Aronsson Datateknik - <a
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