Some things I have read on the<br>internet say that in some jurisdictions it may not be possible to place<br>things in the public domain.<br><br>There are two big problems I've read about. (You might want to move<br>this to OSM-legal.)<br>
<br>First is that someone can include public domain material<br>in their own work and not tell the reader. The reader then does not know<br>that they can copy or make derivative works from those public domain portions<br>
without permission.<br><br>Second, derivative works are now under a new copyright and no longer free (libre).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Jukka Rahkonen <<a href="mailto:jukka.rahkonen@mmmtike.fi">jukka.rahkonen@mmmtike.fi</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
<br>
I concluded that I'd rather see my contributions in public domain and added<br>
the PD-user template to show that. I wonder what does it mean in practice.<br>
Is it now possible for me or anybody else to extract all features I have<br>
created and which have never been touched by other users? How about ways<br>
created originally by me but edited later by others? How should I work<br>
in the future to guarantee that my edits will be free? Should I do all<br>
new work in some other environment and store it there before donating<br>
it to OSM or what? I am now only speaking about creating totally new<br>
features, not editing anything done by others.<br>
<br>
-Jukka Rahkonen-<br>
<br>
<br>
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