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

[Shaun McDonald]

I'm not sure this works.

What happens when you add a poi under one licence, and I come and  
update the poi with some new bit of information, and want to use some  
other licence? It would mean that the single poi in under multiple  
licences.

Or would we have a tagging war based on the licence, rather than the  
name of the roads?

It is much simpler to have one licence for all the data.

Shaun
On 21 Oct 2008, at 15:25, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:

> 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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