[Osmf-talk] Can we untick the Public domain checkbox from our initial choice done during OSM sign up?

Florian Lohoff f at zz.de
Wed Oct 2 06:01:28 UTC 2019


On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 11:07:49AM +0100, Claire Halleux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found myself in the same situation last year, and at the time the info I
> obtained was that having the PD box checked "doesn't currently have any
> implication" and is more of an indicator of what the contributors think.
> However, 10 years after having checked that box, I do consider that this
> "indicator" is at least outdated and at best useless.
> Moreover, nowadays a number of contributions are constrained by additional
> licenses from imagery providers or imports and if a "license wish" was to
> be expressed, I think that it should be at the changeset level.

Additional licensing terms from imagery/DOP providers or imports would
be incompatible with ODbL from my understanding and would anyway be not
allowed to be included in OSM.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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