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

[Joseph Gentle]

We won't have all the data under one license though. Never will if
we're incorporating TIGER data and data from other governments.

I don't think its that big a deal - we could just say "if you edit a
node, your edits are also under the same PD license as the node is
currently under" or something. Its a bit icky; but I can't think of
any real-world issues this causes.

-J


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Shaun McDonald
<shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
> 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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