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

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Lars Aronsson wrote:
| 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.

15 years is good. I think we should make it clear that we believe in the
15 years number, and if the term is extended in the future, or someone
is from a different jurisdiction, we won't assert more than 15 years.

Robert (Jamie) Munro

Ps. does that mean that if someone has a 1993 or earlier postcode DB
lying around, we can bulk load it into Free the Postcode?
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