[OSM-legal-talk] Making OSM Public domain

[SteveC]

On 25 Oct 2008, at 19:43, Joseph Gentle wrote:

> I'm not convinced that this will ever happen but:
>
> What sort of support from the community would be needed to public  
> domain OSM?
>
>
> I want to know:
>
> - How many people would rather OSM was PD at this time? How do we find
> this out? Would a web-based poll be appropriate?
>
> - How many would we need to make OSM PD? 50%?

No, you need 100% of the people who contributed to the data.

> - Would moving the data to a public domain license be any more complex
> than moving to the proposed open-database license?

stephen-coasts-macbook-air:~ steve$ whois  
reallyreallyfreeandopenstreetmap.org
NOT FOUND

godaddy.com is that way ------->


Best

Steve