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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

> The more complex thing is that some jurisdictions make it really
> difficult for you to give away your rights so generously.

Which is a splendid reason to use WTFPL, reproduced here in its  
entirety:

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.


 From its FAQ (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/):

Isn’t this license basically public domain?

There is no such thing as "putting a work in the public domain", you  
America-centered, Commonwealth-biased individual. Public domain varies  
with the jurisdictions, and it is in some places debatable whether  
someone who has not been dead for the last seventy years is entitled  
to put his own work in the public domain.


cheers
Richard
who has not quite been dead for 70 years