[OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Fri Oct 9 19:30:55 UTC 2015
On 2015-10-09 11:56, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Mr. Stace D Maples
> <stacemaples at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> One other question, and I’m just curious, not trying to start a
>> flame war. Isn’t some of the data in OSM from public domain
>> datasets? If so, what is the OSM rationale for placing a more
>> restrictive licensing model on that data?
>
> [...]
>
> On the other hand, a share-alike license aims to be a more sustainable
> model. It restricts the immediate user on only one aspect: the right
> to make a share-alike content/data/IP proprietary is explicitly
> disallowed. This ensures that any improvements are shared back to the
> community, unlike with the BSD-style licensing.
It also (and I would argue first) ensures that the freedom to use the
work travels with it rather than simply being a prize to be captured by
the first upstream mover. Wherever you encounter an OSM map in the wild,
you have the freedom to use it. PD can't do that, so it's not a matter
of "restricting" anything other than the ability to restrict it.
How one feels about this is a good ideological litmus test. :-)
- Rob.
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