[talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

[Roy Wallace]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If we can get people making editors to add tags to changesets based on
> your license preference then any PD data, even if it's changed later
> to become ODBL, can be collected.
...
> the changeset might be good enough, as long as
> the code collecting only PD data figures out what is new, or only what
> is edited from existing PD data.

Interesting. But the catch is, as you say, "only what is edited from
existing PD data". And if you have different mappers using different
licenses, wouldn't that make it harder for companies like nearmap to
say "we give OSM license to trace from our stuff"?