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

[Kathleen Lu]

The template at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:PD-user has
broader and more specific language than the checkbox, so I would consider
it a different list, though of possibly the same intent from the user's
perspective.

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 7:27 AM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Am Mo., 7. Okt. 2019 um 13:35 Uhr schrieb Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>:
>
>> One thing that hasn't been pointed out in this discussion is that the
>> status of the PD flag is not actually available to anybody except the OSMF
>> and the account holder in question.
>>
>> So in reality no third party could have based their processing of OSM
>> data on the status of the flag and resetting it would have no practical
>> effect at all.
>>
>
> right (at least at the moment it is not visible on the user pages), but
> there are users declaring for themself that they waive rights on their
> contributions, e.g. about 580 people do it in the wiki:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Users_whose_contributions_are_in_the_public_domain
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
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