On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, SteveC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote:<br>
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>> Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ?<br>
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> Because I'm not convinced that CC-BY-SA won't hold ;)<br>
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</div>So if IP lawyers cannot convince you, who or what can?<br></blockquote><div><br>A reasonable argument would go a long way. Much further than out-of-context ambiguous soundbites.<br><br>Of course, to really be 100% convinced it'd probably take a Supreme Court ruling, and that'd only 100% convince me with respect to the United States.<br>
<br>And then, there's the equally ambiguous question of whether or not the ODbL *would* hold. If OSM is considered public domain in the United States, it's fairly unlikely ODbL is going to change that. Of course, I'll be watching the Derrick Coetzee/National Portrait Gallery situation closely to adjust my sense of that one.<br>
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