[OSM-legal-talk] Upgrading to future ODbL version

[John Smith]

On 17 July 2010 04:58, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Is that a desired safeguard against OKFN releasing "bad" new license
> versions, or is it an oversight?

That clause most likely makes cc-by data incompatible, since a "free
and open license" may not require attribution, regardless if you
haven't contributed in a while or are not contactable for 3 weeks, the
2/3rds may vote for it anyway.

I did a rough check of all data with attribution=* tags and it was
considerable (up to 1/3rd of the data) for Australia once I figured
out how to cull nodes/ways that were referenced by filtered
relations/ways/nodes etc.