[OSM-legal-talk] Creative Commons (was: Cloudmade)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Bear in mind that Creative Commons, who actually  
> wrote our current licence, would have us dedicate all of OSM's data  
> to the public domain

Actually, their position was more or less that it is very likely to be 
public domain anyway, dedication or no dedication, and that it is better 
to embrace this and work with it instead of continuing a life in denial.

The new proposed license partly accepts that our data is free but tries 
to add restrictions to the "whole", and it will probably take forever 
until we know wheteher these restrictions stand up in court - or are 
null and void, in which case those adhering to the restrictions will be 
the honest losers (and might well spent have a lot of time and money to 
construct a business model around a nonexistent concept).

But I digress. At least the new license is better than what we have 
right now.

Bye
Frederik

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