On 9/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lars Aronsson</b> <<a href="mailto:lars@aronsson.se">lars@aronsson.se</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Richard Fairhurst wrote:<br><br>> On 21 Sep 2006, at 22:48, Lars Aronsson wrote:<br>> > This is where you're mistaken. If OSM wasn't here to promote<br>> > copyleft, all data would have been given to the public domain.
<br>><br>> As ever, Lars, I like your idealism, but I don't think that's supported<br>> by history.<br><br>It's not my idealism, it's Steve's. He set up OSM to use CC-SA-BY<br>(or something to that effect) long before I entered this project.
<br>Many others, including Etienne and myself, have been far more open<br>towards using the public domain. </blockquote><div><br>Hmmm... some days I think BY would be best, other days I think that SA is best. I can see benefits and drawbacks with any license that might be an option. I don't think making our own license would really solve anything - we'd still be required to make some decisions (which we are not very well organised to do).
<br><br>Anyway, this <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/#gpl-bsd">http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/#gpl-bsd</a> seems interesting and vaguely relevant.<br><br>Etienne<br><br></div></div>