[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue May 13 23:20:36 BST 2008


Hi,

> > I think that if the data had been not "published" PD but actually
> > "disowned" by the government (as in: this is what we have and we're
> > not going to work with this any more) then the situation would have
> > been wholly different.
> 
> You think it's more likely that a community would form if there were
> no updates than if there were some updates? That seems
> counter-intuitive to me.

Why should a community gather around a data set that it still actively
maintained by someone else who isn't even asking for help? That would
seem counter-intuitive to me but I'm really unwilling to discuss stuff
that is hypothetical on so many levels - it doesn't help.

Bye
Frederik

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