[OSM-legal-talk] INANAL - But these guys are

[Lars Aronsson]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> I'm guessing that it's useful to ask CC lawyers questions about  
> interpretation/meaning of a CC licence. I guess it's not useful to ask  
> them big-picture questions like "should we just go PD instead?".

You're trying to make an abstract theory of a very easy and 
practial issue.  You simply cannot "go PD".  Dozens of OSM 
contributors would break your legs if you tried.  However, this 
last summer I printed a map and sent to the anniversary party 
where everybody happily signed it and nobody protested against the 
way I reused the OSM data.  This is a proof of what you can 
apparently get away with,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Osm_2nd_anniv_poster.jpg

Here's the entire text:

-----
Open Street Map
of Europe

Based on free* geographic information from
www.openstreetmap.org
as of July 2006

* Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
-----

More attribution than that is not needed.  Or sue me.
But doing so now is hard if you signed that poster.


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