[OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I suppose there is the Public Domain Dedication from the Creative
Commons that we could use as well, although that will have to be
discussed among the participants. Or the Open Data Commons Public
Domain Dedication and License,

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
http://www.opendatacommons.org/odc-public-domain-dedication-and-licence/

Landon

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Denver Gingerich <denver at ossguy.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Sunburned Surveyor  wrote:
>> I've had some recent discussions with Joseph Gentle and Kari Pihkala
>> about the desire to maintain a "clean" repository of data collected
>> for OSM that would be released in the public domain before being
>> imported into OSM. This would allow anyone to use the data without
>> having to worry about the OSM license restrictions, especially the
>> viral portions.
>
> I suggest that you be very careful when creating the agreement you
> will present to contributors that says they want their contributions
> in the public domain.  In many countries, there are unwaivable moral
> rights that could make an agreement to the effect of "I release this
> work into the public domain" invalid.
>
> You may want to base your agreement on the PD agreement that Wikipedia uses:
>
> "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the
> public domain. This applies worldwide.
>
> In case this is not legally possible:
> I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any
> conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."
>
>
> A statement like this is a much more likely to be valid in a variety
> of jurisdictions.
>
> Denver
> http://ossguy.com/
>
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