[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 1 September 2010 15:42, Robert Kaiser <kairo at kairo.at> wrote:
> Francis Davey schrieb:
>>
>> Agreeing with the person you assign to that they will only use the
>> copyright in certain ways won't protect you against a subsequent
>> assignee of the copyright (eg OSMF assigns to XXX Ltd), subject to
>> certain exceptions.
>
> While that may be true, anyone not trusting the organization that operates
> all of the software and hardware of the project (the OSMF in our case)
> should not have contributed any data to the project as a whole in the first
> place.

I disagree, you can upload your data, use their editors, and you get a
suitably licensed planet snapshot on the output + a nice rendering,
this is probably all you need to care about.

Also I don't see how CC-By-SA 3.0 explicitly does not apply to
databases more than 2.0.  It explicitly applies to things like maps
however (possibly this only means maps as images though)

Cheers