[Osmf-talk] New license change proposal status

[Vance Briggs]

I agree  and think that SteveC's comments are common sense and allow
contributors the OPTION of releasing their data under a less-restrictive
license if they see fit.

It doesn't mean that all OSM data should be available under that license, or
that we think that the LWG is steamrolling ODbL.

Vance

2009/12/3 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>

>
> SteveC wrote:
>
> No, you misunderstand entirely.
>
> I am not at all suggesting that the vote is:
>
>    [  ] OSM should go ODbL
>    [  ] OSM should stay CC-BY-SA
>    [  ] OSM should go PD
>
> I am suggesting, as I have been since before LWG existed:
>
>    [  ]  Yes, OSM should go ODbL
>    [  ]  No, OSM should stay CC-BY-SA
>    [  ]  I don't care. Treat my contributions as PD.
>
> It is not a vote for turning the whole project PD. (I like ODbL.) It
> is a way for the user to signal that _their_ contributions are PD. It
> is, to borrow your phrase of a couple of years ago, "formalising the
> scheme that already exists on the wiki".
>
> It affords the user the right to licence their own contributions more
> liberally than the default (just like, say, Flickr), which is a matter
> of respect. But it's also an immensely useful user preference for OSMF
> to keep if, say, some unexpected asteroid-related licence incident
> happens next year, and another relicensing is required. If you have
> 500 PD users in the project, that's 500 fewer people whose agreement
> you need second time round.
>
>
>
>
> But hey, this response was written on a FreeBSD-based OS so clearly I
> should get down with the cool Linux kids. Apple seem to be doing ok
> though. ;)
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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