[Openstreetmap] Re: OSM License and debian

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Lars Aronsson]
> I've seen your impressive amounts of data for Oslo, and I helped 
> to draw the motorway to Gardermoen airport.

Ah, it was you.  Thank you very much.  It has been an inspiration to
see others contributing to the Oslo map.:)

> Would you release these GPX files under a CC no-SA no-BY license?
> Or if you insist on SA (share-alike) or BY (attribution), on what
> reasons?

The license for these files is still open for debate.  The plan is to
release the with the license finally selected by the OSM project, but
for now I just wrote CC on them.

> I don't have so much, but my seven files for the Linköping region
> are available at http://aronsson.se/geodata/

Right.  I assume you already found mine at
<URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/gis/openstreetmap/data/>.

> I release these into the public domain, which is to say that I will
> accept any kind of use and reuse for any purpose, with or without
> attribution, with or without similar sharing, for profit or not.

There is no license info in the files, and in that case I would guess
the default from the authors rights law take effect.  How can users of
your file know these will files are placed in the public domain if it
isn't written in the files?  I thought the concept didn't really exist
in Sweden, as the legal system was fairly compatible with ours in
Norway.  How do you make sure these files are placed in the public
domain for Sweden?