[OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

[Andrew Harvey]

Thanks for posting this Kai. Those comments from Creative Commons look
promising.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to link to a recent interesting article on the OSM licensing change
> on LWN (Linux Weekly News) as I haven't seen it be mentioned anywhere yet.
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/422493/
>
> It also has a 60 entry long comment section. Although much is a rehash of
> the the endless debates on OSMs own communication channels,
> there are also a set of comments by user mlinksva from Creative Commons
> (e.g. http://lwn.net/Articles/422754/) that seem to bring points to light
> that would suggest a possible, quite significant, change of attitude (or at
> least a perceived change) of CC towards open data licensing and OSM.
>
> I'll try and paraphrase some of the main points and hope I don't
> missrepresent anyone.
>
> - CC does not (no longer) think data should be PD and would be happy with
> copyleft on data. The statements of CC saying data should be PD were from
> science commons for scientific data only and was a misscommunication that it
> was perceived as general CC viewpoint
>
> - CC does care about data and either sees their licensing as potentially
> valid for data or intend to make it work for data
>
> - CC is (or will be) working on a new version 4 of their CC licenses, which
> will apparently make every effort to address the needs of the open data
> ecosystem
>
> What exactly this all means, if it is indeed a shift away from the position
> CC appears to have held previously, why it comes to light now and if it has
> any relevance to the license change process for OSM I have no idea. But
> perhaps we will find out more about this soon from CC as mlinksva mentioned
> he wanted to follow up on these points publicly.
>
> Their wiki page on version 4 ( http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_4 )
> at least is still entirely empty. So it probably isn't anything around the
> corner or of any certainty yet.
>
> Kai
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