On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Brendan Morley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morb.gis@beagle.com.au">morb.gis@beagle.com.au</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;">
<font face="MS Shell Dlg"><font size="1"><div class="im">"Actually, I've decided I'm not going to release my data as PD. I prefer copyleft. I prefer CC-BY-SA. It keeps people from taking my data and incorporating it into data under more restrictive licenses. Like ODbL."<br>
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I'm assuming this is your comment Anthony? (I'm starting to lose track of the thread).<br></font></font></blockquote><div><br>Yes, it's mine.<br><br></div><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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OdbL is meant to be copyleft for source data, as far as I can now tell.<br></font></font></blockquote><div><br>I have no idea what it's meant to be.<br><br></div><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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But what's the problem with people "incorporating it into data under more restrictive licenses"? The data under the original licence will (should!) still be made available, and competes with the data made available under the more restrictive licence.</font></font></blockquote>
<div><br>There's not necessarily a problem. And in certain circumstances, I'd certainly be willing to grant individual licenses to people who are doing things that I feel are positive (although, realistically, there are just too many contributors for this to happen given current technologies).<br>
<br>My primary reason for not wanting to release my data as PD is that I don't want to support OSM if it decides to go with the ODbL. A street map licensed under ODbL is not something I find worthy of my (uncompensated) support, and the fact that the project would go from a street map licensed under CC-BY-SA to a street map licensed under ODbL is enough to make me actively opposed to it. Hopefully there will be a fork, and I can contribute my data to the fork instead. If there is a fork, the more data we have in the fork that isn't in OSM, the more likely it is to succeed.<br>
<br>I hope it doesn't come to that, and I still think there's a good chance it won't, because once it becomes clear how much data is going to not be relicensed due to people not responding, I think there's a chance the OSMF membership will come to its senses.<br>
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