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

[Joseph Gentle]

I was looking at the OSGeo data committee wondering where their data
was as they seem to have the same goals as us.

I don't think picking the right PD license will be a particularly
large hurdle. It is certainly less complicated than selecting a
share-alike license :)  The wikipedia pd license looks good.

I don't think it matters much where our mailing list is hosted. A
google group would be fine; at least for the time being. Once we have
project hosting somewhere and a project name we can move the mailing
list.

-J


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Sunburned Surveyor
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems our idea for a public domain repository of OSM data has some
> merit. This means we have some things to decide on. A name, what
> vehicle we will use to release the data under the public domain, a
> host for our mailing list, and a sponsor for our data hosting needs.
>
> Should we just fire up a Google Group to communicate while we get
> these things hammered out, or would OSM support a "public domain"
> mailing list?
>
> Landon
>
> P.S. - I might be able to get the OSGeo Data committee to take an
> interest in our project and help out with a server for our repository.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>> I'm the person who started the "all my contributions are PD"
>>> thing on the Wiki
>>
>> Seems I was wrong here, Wiki history lists RichardF as the inventor and
>> myself as a mere follower a few weeks later! Well then, I guess, PD is
>> not so great after all ;-)
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
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