[OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

[Lars Aronsson]

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:

> I think that we should reduce the time before the data becomes 
> public domain from year of editors death (which will be very 
> hard for someone in 100 years time to find out) + 70 years to 
> year of entry into the DB + about 10 years.

Only traditional copyright expires after life+70 years.  This is 
applicable to software source code and might be applicable to 
artwork, such as mapnik renderings.

But database rights only last 15 years after the year of 
publication.  All the discussion of which license to use for OSM 
data, is only a matter for the first 15 years. Any planet.osm from 
2006 will enter the public domain at the end of 2021.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se