[OSM-legal-talk] Protection time of ODbL

[Ed Avis]

Matt Amos <zerebubuth at ...> writes:

>>Have we reached a
>>consensus that the contents of the database are themselves not protected
>>by copyright and do we explicitly say that we don't claim any copyright?
>
>yes. see the contributor terms document.

I think what might have been meant is not 'does the OSM foundation claim
copyright over the map data' but rather 'do we claim that the map data is
a work subject to copyright'.  As far as I know OSM is still making that
claim, and there are no plans to change this.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>