[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Heiko Jacobs wrote:
> Rob Myers schrieb:
>> Creative Commons did put a mechanism in place with BY-SA 3.0 to 
>> declare other licences "compatible" with BY-SA and allow derivatives 
>> to be relicenced under them. But they haven't declared any compatible 
>> yet.
> 
> So updating our 2.0 to 3.0 and then finding a licence compatible
> with cc-3.0-by-sa would be a way to avoid all loss of data and problems
> with asking all members and all other problems?
> Then we should search a compatible way ...

This would require the cooperation of Creative Commons. They would have 
to explicitly declare a database license as compatible with their 3.0 
license. Since ODbL arose from an abandoned attempt by CC to find such a 
license, I think it is unlikely that they would do that.

Bye
Frederik