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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nick you do have a valid point. Just to clarify the
point I made about releasing the mapping I have done so far in
Baghdad:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"All
contribution made by me to the OSM database within a 20km radius of Baghdad, and
contributed up until 1 March 2007, are released into the public domain, all
other data contributed by me remains under the terms of the OSM
license."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I wouldn't
necessarily want anyone to think I meant that when the mapping of Baghdad
was complete then all that data should be released into PD. Not that I
necessarily have anything against PD, its just that I think until consensus is
reached then it would be wrong to start branching data under different
licenses.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>But a plea to
OSM foundation or whoever: We do need to sort out this licensing problem,
and get legal advice rather than us endlessly discussing it on the mailing
list. If the current licensing complexities have put ITN off using
our map then we have missed a great marketing
opportunity.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3>David</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=nick150971@yahoo.co.uk href="mailto:nick150971@yahoo.co.uk">Nick
Whitelegg</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=talk@openstreetmap.org
href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 22, 2007 6:18
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OSM-talk] OSM layer into
Adobe Illustrator?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>> (Public Domain?) <BR><BR>One thing I've always wondered
about Public Domain. If data is Public Domain, is there a risk that a
commercial organisation could "steal" it, place restrictive licencing on it,
claim copyright over it and thus take it proprietary?<BR><BR>Can data have a
"public domain" licence and be copyrighted, thus allowing the original data
owner to take action if it was infringed in this way?<BR><BR>Of course OSM
could always start putting in its own Easter Eggs.... :-)<BR><BR>Nick<BR>
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