[OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

[Simon Ward]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:42:57PM -0500, John Wilbanks wrote:
> I am not speaking for CC the organization here - there have been no 
> conversations to my knowledge about doing a compatibility check between 
> ODbL and CC licensing. But, I would remind everyone that the current 
> official CC policy on CC licenses and databases - indeed, on any legal 
> tools other than PD for databases - is the science commons protocol on 
> open access to data, which calls for the PD position only.
> 
> This position comes from a goal of promoting interoperability across 
> domains of data. We started out endorsing the use of CC licenses on the 
> "copyrightable elements of databases" but not the data itself. After 
> about three years of research we decided that was a really Bad Thing if 
> what we wanted was data integration.

Interoperability of data would be nice, but as far as I am concerned
it’s not a primary aim unless the interoperability is with other
similarly free (freedom) and licensed such that further redistribution
is also free.

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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