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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Lars Aronsson wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, I meant "gain agreement for future contributions to be licensed  
as PD, then begin the long, slow, arduous process of seeking down the  
existing copyright holders and seeing if they will relicense their  
data"... but was trying to keep the length down.

cheers
Richard