[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL for the DB; what about the contents?

[Simon Ward]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:39:48AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> I think we should require our contributors to make the individual data 
> items available under the factual info license, whether or not they 
> would theoretically be eligible for protection in a certain 
> jurisdiction.

So in any jurisdiction where individual data items _are_ eligible for
protection someone could incorporate them into their work and not be
obliged to share derived versions?  I think data should be free
everywhere but, as with software, it’s better to force the issue and try
to improve restrictive laws _everywhere_, so I’m not convinced an all
permissive licence is enough.

Simon
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