[Legal-general] Which approach would be the best to import data into PD database?

[Kari Pihkala]

Yes, I understand that now. After all, we all have agreed to the license
when we created an account: "By creating an account, you agree that all work
uploaded to openstreetmap.org and all data created by use of any tools which
connect to openstreetmap.org is to be (non-exclusively) licensed under this
Creative Commons license (by-sa)<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/>
."

Even if someone says that his data is in PD, it doesn't mean anything once
uploaded to openstreetmap.org. I could as well claim that my data is in GPL
or CC-BY-SA-non-commercial. It doesn't change the license of the data sent
to the server. I wonder if all these people[1] have realised that..

So, we can't use any data from the OSM database for a PD map. If we want to
create a PD map, we must start from scratch.

It'll be interesting to see how the CC-BY-SA license is changed to Open
Database License..

- Kari

[1]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Users_whose_contributions_are_in_the_public_domain
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