I vote for keeping CC.<br><br>I'm totally happy with my CC-licensed map data being used in proprietary navigation systems, speed camera warning systems, printed maps sold in shops, websites with adverts, etc, but when said vendor discovers a new speed camera, I want them to be forced to add that speed camera back into OSM.
<br><br>That simply won't happen if OSM is PD.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert (Jamie) Munro</b> <<a href="mailto:rjmunro@arjam.net">rjmunro@arjam.net</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Lester Caine wrote:<br>> Nic Roets wrote:<br>>> My 2 cents :<br>>>
<br>>> To me it makes no difference weather I contribute to a CC / GPL<br>>> project, or weather I contribute to a PD project with a good<br>>> non-profit orginization (NPO) behind it :<br>>><br>>> If someone then sells a relicensed version of my PD work, that's fine
<br>>> because, in the internet era, his clients will be just one or two<br>>> websearches away from discovering the true magnitude of his<br>>> contribution.<br>><br>> If only that was the case :(
<br>> You obviously have not heard about the current case relating to a<br>> company selling reworked PD material as their own work and trying to<br>> extract licence fees from the people who actually created it !
<br>> <a href="http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/index.html">http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/index.html</a><br>> If the company win, then the licence covering such little projects as<br>> Perl are not worth the disk space they are stored on.
<br>><br>> So lets take care that a commercial hijack does not take place here!<br><br>That's an interesting case, but it mostly refers to patents, not<br>copyright and I don't see how it's relevant here.
<br><br>Does anyone actually object to what I am proposing? I.e. OSM foundation<br>have a statement like this one from BBC News (just change "BBC News" to<br>"OSM foundation"):<br><br> In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free,
<br> non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material<br> in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide.<br><br> [snip stuff about foreign broadcast partners]<br><br> It's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright
<br> to everything you contribute to BBC News ...<br><br>Also see <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/</a> paragraph 9, "Contributions to<br><a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a>".
<br><br>Lots of other websites have similar agreements.<br><br>Back to the real issue: Does anyone mind their data being used to derive<br>public domain UK postcodes?<br><br>I suppose, if we get a download by user feature on OSM, something could
<br>be added to <a href="http://npemaps.org">npemaps.org</a> that lets users sign up and agree to their OSM<br>contribs being mirrored. While this would work, it would be silly.<br><br>Robert (Jamie) Munro<br><br><br><br>
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