[OSM-legal-talk] The edges of share-alike on data Re: Attribution

[Richard Weait]

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:

> Open data is a different animal to software source code and highly-creative
> works and I suspect it will [be] a few more years yet until we understand it all
> fully.

Sure.  Of course, we are part of why it is a big deal now, and we are
also part of why it is still evolving.  It should be no surprise that
Old Model Entities have a hard time keeping up with us.  :-)

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> Again, it just a research topic. I see it as benefiting the OpenStreetMap
> project enormously but at the same time potentially debasing the whole
> concept of share-alike for the wider open data community ... perhaps those
> restaurant reviews should be shared?

One benefit of the community guidelines, and the recognition of them
by ODC-ODbL[1] is that they apply to our community, and not to another
Open Data project community unless they deliberately adopt them.

Another benefit is that the community guidelines are trivially easy
for the OpenStreetMap community to amend and adapt compared to waiting
for an updated version of ODbL.  That gives us the ability to revise
the wording of the community guidelines should that be required to
adapt to our changing world.  That's not a hypothetical situation;
we're changing it.

Super to have your thoughts on this Mike.

[1] http://opendatacommons.org/faq/licenses/#What_is_8216Substantial8217