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

[Joseph Gentle]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Peter Miller
<peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
>> 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 ;)

Ok I'm good with that.

Also, excellent summary.

Whats the timeframe for relicensing OSM to ODbl/FIL? 2 weeks? 1 month?
3-6 months? 1 year?

-J

> Peter
>
>> Bye
>> Frederik