[OSM-legal-talk] CC Licensed Geodata in Australia

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Mikel Maron wrote:
| State and national governments in Australia are considering licensing
| geodata (and other data) under CC
|
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/14/freeourdata.intellectualproperty
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| Perhaps we should voice the OSM viewpoint that CC is not adequate for
data.

There is no such thing as the CC License. There are a range of licenses
that are completely different and mostly incompatible with each other.

CC-by, CC-sa and CC-pd are more different from each other than they are
from other licenses. For example, CC-sa is similar to the GPL, CC-pd is
similar to the Apache / MIT license, and CC-by is similar to old-style
BSD licensing.

CC even recommend the GPL and LGPL licenses for software.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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