[talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

[John Smith]

On 30 July 2010 15:40, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to just create a new account, and not agree to the CTs,
> only to discover you cannot create an account without accepting. That
> means that no new members can contribute by deriving information from
> Nearmap imagery...
>

I've cc'd Grant on this email, he posted to the #osm-au IRC channel
about some proposed changes to the CTs, which I was hoping would have
come up in another thread by now:

"LWG is considering:

3. OSMF agrees to use or sub-license Your Contents as part of a
database and only under the terms of one of the following licenses:
the Open Database Licence for the database and Database Contents
Licence for the individual contents of the database; or the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence (version 2.0 or later)

If You have indicated to OSMF that you waive any rights in Your
Contents (dedication to the 'public domain'), OSMF will additionally
use or sub-license Your Contents under: the Public Domain Dedication &
License; or the Creative Commons CC0 waiver."