[OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

[Frederik Ramm]

Steve,

SteveC wrote:
> Guys OSM isn't going PD... 

Who can say? OSM goes where the community wants it to. You were present 
at SOTM 07; do you remember the show of hands when people were asked 
what they think about PD? That the Foundation is investigating 
share-alike licenses and not PD is due to the fact that we currently 
have a small but outspoken minority in favour of share-alike. I'm all 
for respecting their wishes but trying to stifle discussion about PD and 
  make these people "go away" is surely going too far.

 > can't you go start
> ReallyFreeAndOpenStreetMap.org or something?

Well they were about to, but I'd rather try and keep everything under 
one lid at this time. There is nothing against dual-licensing some data 
if people want that - I could well imagine an editor setting that, 
whenever you upload original data and you have the "PD flag" set, 
uploads data into two repositories at the same time. I also still think 
my pet project of having something like a "PD view" of OSM that contains 
only those bits not touched by a viral license is not that bad.

While I do understand that the Foundation has a lot of work with the 
proposed new license and any PD discussion does not make that easier, I 
don't think that statements like yours above are helpful in any way. An 
osm-pd mailing list would be the right answer - let legal-talk be the 
forum for discussing the current as well as the proposed new license, 
and any PD plans continue elsewhere *within* OSM.

Bye
Frederik

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