[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL modules?

[Andrew Turner]

It sounds like your primary concern is about interoperability. But
isn't that perhaps just CC-implementation specific?

Perhaps something that can be addressed in ODbL with modules? The
ability to have them merged together. Again, this would have *huge*
impact on the benefits to products and consumers of GeoData to easily
understand the various options and implications to them in pushing out
or compiling together data.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andrew Turner wrote:
>> I would like to know more about how they're not compatible?
>
> Well you cannot use data from a CC-BY-NC project in a CC-BY-SA project.
> (For example, there is a Karlsruhe local Wiki using CC-BY-NC from which
> I would have liked to use data for OSM; and your "marketing"...
>
>> Largely the benefit here is marketing.
>
> ... makes people say "hey, sure, why don't you use the Wiki stuff, it's
> all Creative Commons isn't it?", and I am left looking like a stupid
> nitpicker if I tell them sorry, no, not possible, just because they are
> all Creative Commons doesn't mean merging stuff from then is possible.
>
> You cannot create a work that it at the same time derived from CC-BY-SA
> and CC-BY-NC, and there's any number of other combinations of two
> Creative Commons licenses where this isn't possible either.
>
> You may be right - it's a marketing ploy. People actually believe that
> these licenses are somehow all one family until they think about it and
> find out that the members of this family don't particularly like each other.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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