[OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:59 PM, john wilbanks
<wilbanks at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> Yup, I said this:
>
> "I'm going to be a little provocative here and say that your data is
> already unprotected [under CC-BY-SA], and you cannot slap a license on
> it and protect it. ... That means I'm free to ignore any kind of
> share-alike you apply to your data. I've got a download of the OSM
> data dump. I can repost it, right now, as public domain."

Dear Mike and John,

I understand that Creative Commons declined to participate in drafting
ODbL when invited.  Why is that?  Why the sudden interest in data now,
after having declined the opportunity earlier?

Best regards,
Richard