On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:43 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 11:26 AM, Anthony wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:22 PM, SteveC <<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Sebastian Hohmann wrote:<br>
> > I don't know about that legal stuff in detail, but I agree that CC0<br>
> > would probably be the best licence. If OSM won't go and really try to<br>
> > sue people, why protect the data? And why protect the data at all?<br>
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> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=bsd+vs+gpl&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g5" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=bsd+vs+gpl&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g5</a><br>
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> doesn't apply to Geodata.<br>
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</div></div>Because...?<br></blockquote><div><br>Same reason that CC-BY-SA doesn't apply to geodata. It mostly isn't protected by copyright law.<br><br>The purpose of copyleft is to free data from copyright - not to force people to share.<br>
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