[Openstreetmap] Legal issue about CCL

[Frank Mohr]

immanuel.scholz at gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry to bother you about boring legal issues. I have a question about
> usability of the OSM-data.
> 
> The data within OSM are licensed under CCL, sharealike, attribution. This
> last word is my problem - do I that mean, I have to track down every
> single data node and store, who has uploaded it to OSM, when I extrakt
> data from OSM?
> 
> Even worse, does this means, that there never may be an anonymous data
> upload possible? Or am I confusing everything &-)  ?
> 
> Would a non-attribution license fit better on OSM, like
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0 ?
> 
> Ciao, Imi.

I'd prefer a attribution to the OSM project.

We had several licence discussions earlier that year
CC-SA was chosen until a better fitting licence for GeoData is found

(At the Linuxtag i "tried to find one"
http://bat.vr.ucl.ac.uk/pipermail/openstreetmap/2005-June/000762.html)

frank

		
___________________________________________________________ 
Was denken Sie über E-Mail? Wir hören auf Ihre Meinung: http://surveylink.yahoo.com/wix/p0379378.aspx