[OSM-legal-talk] Making OSM Public domain

[Joseph Gentle]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> <lots of sensible and interesting discussion>
> Frederik


I agree with all of this. I don't want to confuse the issues; but I do
want more data about the opinions of average mappers than an argument
on the internet can provide.

I am unfortunately frustrated with the foundation. To be able to say
that OSM will never go PD, there must be data.

If a poll were given to the community, I think it should look like this:


Some people have different ideas of what 'free' should mean for our maps.

Do you prefer that we:
(o)  Place no restrictions on the use of the map data [link to PD stuff]
(o)  Force anyone using maps based on OpenStreetMaps to share their
improvements back to the community [link to SA stuff]

[x]  I believe so strongly about this that I would contribute less to
the project based on what model of freedom it supports

Further discussion of the pros and cons of each of these models can be
found here [link].


I don't want to confuse this with the cc-by-sa -> odbl license change.
But, its hard for any of us to make decisions on the community's
behalf without finding out what the community thinks. I agree
completely with Liz - I think most people don't care what the license
is; just that we pick one. Steve - it is for that reason that I don't
want to duplicate effort maintaining two maps. Much better to have it
all under one united roof.

-J