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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Sat Jan 22 23:29:45 GMT 2011


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> Personally I'm hoping for a CC-BY-SA which states explicitly that it
> does not cover unoriginal facts and that it only covers the expression
> half of the idea/expression divide.

Ugh, sorry for the imprecise language (this is why I'm thrilled CC's
lawyers are finally looking at this).  By "does not cover", I mean
that it provides license to use any facts and ideas contained in the
work without restriction.



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