[OSM-legal-talk] Removal of CC-SA-BY licensed data from OSM after ODbL takes effect

[Gustav Foseid]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> Would it be possible for CC to offer a licence transition clause for
> "large scale open geodata projects" in the same way the FSF has
> offered an FDL -> BY-SA get out for Wikipedia in the current minor FDL
> revision?


Well... If I am not mistaken, people closely involved with CC have argued
that OSM is in the public domain and only the graphical maps are "creative"
and covered by copyright. You might call that a transition strategy, if not
a transition clause.

 - Gustav
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