[OSM-legal-talk] Making OSM Public domain

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

Rob Myers schrieb:
> Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> 
>> Copyleft/share-alike seemed like a good idea to me for a long time.
>> However the large number of incompatible licenses like GPLv2 only,
>> GPLv3, CC-BY-SA fragment the free software/data/etc community and
>> everyone has to reinvent the wheel since the existing free stuff they
>> would like build upon is locked away from them by licenses that claim to
>> protect freedom.
> 
> BY-SA should not be used on code, and most programs can have different
> licences for code & data. I think it's only Debian who get really funny
> about this.

"most" is not enough. There are reasons to link data into a program.

And use of the GPL is not restricted to software. Maybe I want to make a
map where some location is marked by a GPLed image. Maybe I want to put
some GFDLed text onto it.

Philipp