On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, DavidD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thewinch@gmail.com">thewinch@gmail.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;">
2010/1/17 John Smith <<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> 2010/1/18 Anthony <<a href="mailto:osm@inbox.org">osm@inbox.org</a>>:<br>
>> I didn't say it's invalid so much as it's redundant.<br>
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>> All contributions are effectively PD anyway.<br>
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> That still isn't the point, people want to produce PD data that is<br>
> readily accessible to all, not PD data shrink wraped with another<br>
> license.<br>
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</div></div>OSM has masses of CC-BY-SA data and contributors. How will the PD<br>
people deal with that?</blockquote><div><br>Well, how will the ODbL people deal with that? If OSM switches to ODbL, all the CC-BY-SA-only data has to go into the trash can anyway.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Anthony wrote:<br>
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How exactly does one get protection as a database owner? It's unclear
to me how OSMF would get protection as a database owner since they're
not the ones actually doing anything.<br>
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You're right, just like Google doesn't own any of the data the GMM users upload because Google doesn't do anything.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, I know I'm right. And so does Google. It's why Google doesn't host database dumps or provide an unrestricted API for GMM.<br>
<br>That said, Google does a lot more than OSMF. At least Google chooses what types of data to include/exclude.<br></div></div></div></div>