[OSM-legal-talk] Adopt a PD-Mapper ....... was Re: Refusing CT but declaring contributions as PD

[John Smith]

On 1 September 2011 19:59, Jonathan Harley <jon at spiffymap.net> wrote:
> If it was more suitable it wouldn't be CC BY-SA, would it? In which case,
> why work with the copyright-focussed Creative Commons rather than Open Data
> Commons?

That's because the underlying assumption is that it's data, rather
than content. So why isn't wikipedia using Open Data Commons, after
all they store a bunch of stuff in a database, surely then it must be
a database full of facts issue as well.

> It might seem like a knee jerk until you realise that the process has been
> going on for well over three years, and counting. Slowest knee jerk EVER!

The implication something, anything, must be done is the knee jerk,
the implementation is just fall out.