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

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I have no problem avoiding the moral rights quagmire. I think
simplicity is one of the reasons to move to PD in the first place.

I don't think it would be a problem to use the wikipedia public domain
license now, and then consider a future move to something like the CC
Zero.

I would strongly recommend we do one thing that OSM hasn't done. That
is require a tag for each feature that indicates the license the
feature was released under. I know it's all PD, but this would allow
us to "sort" and catagorize the data in the event of future legal
interpretations or developments. I'd rather have a simple license tag
then get to a point down the road where a large portion of the data
has a cloud over its use because of some legal decision.

The Sunburned Surveyor

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>>
>> The Wikipedia version is the best current PD Dedication but I really
>> would recommend waiting on CC Zero.
>
> CC Zero explicitly mentions database rights, which I think is a good thing,
> but I would be ahppy with the Wikipedia dedication as well.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gustav
>
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