[Openstreetmap] Re: Legal issue about CCL

[Chris Holmes]

> 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.
Yeah, just like you have to attribute BSD, so too would you attribute OSM, 
not the individual contibutors of each.  

It probably would make sense a some point to create a steering/projct
management committee who would hold the copyrigh, that all contributors
would sign over tot.  And better yet a legal entity like apache
foundation.  Of course, it's on a lot of unknown legal ground, since no
licenses are actually geared towards geodata.

C

> 
> 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
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