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

[Sunburned Surveyor]

This situation we are discussing is the best reason to set up a PD
repository. It isn't really practical to contact all of those PD users
to get their data under a PD license.

I have some good news. I believe we are in the process of getting
space for our repository at the OSGeo. I'll keep averyone updated.

Landon

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Kari Pihkala <kari.pihkala at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)."
>
> 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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