[OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

[Anthony]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:32 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 January 2011 02:26, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>> And besides, there is another alternative to individual ownership and
>> collective ownership, and that is no ownership.  If we don't want
>> individual ownership, that's fine with me, but that means the data
>> should be public domain.
>
> Unfortunately that conflicts with other practical issues, such as most
> non-US government data that requires at least attribution of some
> sort, which then leads to duplication of efforts, rather than the
> ability to collaberate and everyone will be better off.

Well, yeah, but requiring individual attribution means acknowledging
individual ownership.  In which case there's no need for public
domain, and we can go with CC-BY-SA, or CC-BY, with no relicensing
clause.