[OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

[Rob Myers]

On 07/25/2010 05:24 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
> So why hasn't OSMF moved OSM to CC-BY-SA 3.0? The upgrade clause
> makes that nearly as simple as "sed 's/2.0/3.0/g' index.html",
> right?

Nearly.

But at least one major contribution to OSM is from a jurisdiction where 
the 2.0 licences included the EU DB Right.

A more general point is that OSM(F) not asserting the DB right on OSM 
doesn't mean no-one else will assert it on a derivative, which breaks 
the idea of the data being freely usable for everyone. The problem isn't 
that OSM(F) might be evil and assert DB right. The problem is that 
*anyone* might.

- Rob.