[OSM-legal-talk] Suggestion for resolving PD/SA issue

[Peter Miller]

> 1. Let us - the "powers that be" in the project - accept that there are
> people who want (some of) OSM in the public domain, and let us accept
> that, where contributors are ok with this, this is a valid concern. Let
> us not stigmatize this concern and tell them to find their own place to
> run their own project; let us create an OSM mailing list where, in the
> future, we investigate the possibility to give OSM contributors the
> option to dual-license their data, so that - to the extent permissible
> by licensing - there might be a subset of OSM that is actually PD
> because the contributors wanted it. Whether or not this turns out to
> work is a completely different question - I am not saying we should
> allocate any resources or make any promises, just set up the mailing
> list and accept that OSM/PD is a topic worth discussing INSIDE our
> project.
>

Yes please, but not on the same list as the details of the SA licence are
being discussed which was my point.
 
> 2. In return for this "inclusive" act, let us - those that would rather
> like to see OSM go PD as a whole - hold back this discussion for at
> least as long as the re-licensing process is finished and OSM is under
> ODbl/FIL. Let us accept that the ODbL/FIL is a workable compromise and,
> at any rate, something better than the CC-BY-SA we have now. Let us
> concentrate forces on how we can make OSM an inclusive platform that,
> while generally being share-alike licensed, also opens avenues for
> contributors to dedicate things to be PD and users to extract such data
> if they want, even if that means that the PD stock will always just be a
> lesser-quality subset of the whole of OSM.
> 

Yes.

> To end this with a Peter Miller-esque phrase: Does that make sense?
> 

Yup ;)


Peter

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