[OSM-legal-talk] importing ODBl data

[Paul Norman]

> From: Pavel Pisa [mailto:ppisa4lists at pikron.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 3:01 AM
> To: legal-talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] importing ODBl data
> 
> I (for myself strongly demand) that my former and future change sets can
> be exported from OSM under CC-BY-SA but I have never got any better
> reply than "do not fear, there would be no problems (with Wikipedia,
> exports, etc.) or unfair CT or license change".

You can build changesets going back to Nov 2009 from the hourly diffs with make_changeset[1]. These would be CC BY-SA 2.0 and unredacted. I intend to make it easier to use make_changeset to build multiple changesets at once, but you could do it now with a simple shell script to call it for each changeset. If you are actually interested in the generation of changesets from diffs, you can follow the project on github.

You can get a list of all your changesets from the changeset dump files either with grep, or a more sophisticated method would be ChangesetMD[2]

For current changesets you could download them and grant someone additional rights, the problem is that you could only grant rights for your portion of the .osc file and an .osc file contains information from other contributors.

[1]: https://github.com/pnorman/make_changeset
[2]: https://github.com/ToeBee/ChangesetMD