[OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

[Simon Ward]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:00:30PM +0100, TimSC wrote:
> For the conditions for relicensing our individual contribution's, I
> propose the following. Each "data object" (either a node, way or
> relation) have one or more authors. For each data object, we will
> agree to relicense our data as ODbL, if all other authors agree to
> release their data as PD.

The current contributor terms[1] state that “data objects” or the
contents of the database will have the Database Content License
(DbCL)[2] applied to them.

I’m not pro‐PD while overly long copyright (and database right) periods
exist (I’d rather see short copyright terms for all, so everything
becomes PD after a reasonable amount of time), but the DbCL appears
PD‐friendly in the face of copy/database rights in a similar vein to the
WTFPL (Do What The Fuck you want to Public License).

Individual PD‐like agreement would not have an effect on extraction from
the database as a whole, which is what ODbL applies to.

[1]: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms
[2]: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1-0/

Simon
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