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

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>wrote:

> >What does OSM Foundation think about the PD repository? Would it make
> sense
> >to host both licences under the name OpenStreetMap or would it be
> >confusing? How much OSMF wants to be part of the PD version? After all
> >I think most of the decisions will be the same for both (e.g.
> >deciding about tags, road types, changes in software...)
>
> To be clear, the OSMF is there to support the project and it is the OSM
> contributors (and the OSMF members) who should guide the direction that the
> project goes in. If the community says 'pd' then this is the way I am sure
> the foundation would support it going. In the absence of a strong vote for
> pd their attitude is to sort out the share-alike licence.
>


To be doubly clear the OSMF's articles of association say this, and only
this, about its objectives:

"OpenStreetMap Foundation is dedicated to encouraging the growth,
development and distribution of free geospatial data and to providing
geospatial data for anybody to use and share."



>
> Btw, I don't really see how the project would work if one contributor in an
> area was doing PD and the other was not. There would need to be dual work
> to
> produce a good pd version of the area which would be weird and hard to
> explain to say the least.
>
> Anyway, I do think it would be useful to set up a pd-talk list to capture
> all this and to ensure that it doesn't overwhelm the legal-talk list which
> I
> suggest should be more focused on current legal concerns. If there is not a
> pd-project wiki page then I suggest you set one of those up and link to it
> from the ODBL page.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Peter
>
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