[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL License + Outline Procedure

[Rob Myers]

Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> It's sad to see OSM add to the pile of incompatible "share-alike"
> licenses, making it more and more impossible to create free works
> derived from more than one already existing free work.
> 
> While I have to accept, that you do not want to go with a more PD or
> BSD-like license, I would have at least hoped for some explicit
> conversion clauses, e.g. allowing to use the data under CC-SA, GFDL or GPL.

None of those licences handle data, though, they handle copyright.

That is the motivation for an open *database* licence.

- Rob.

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