[Openstreetmap] Re: Legal issue about CCL

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Chris Holmes]
> 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.

Or just accept that people can use the mapping data freely without
requiring attribution, and have some GPL-like requirement that they
must share with us their data if they use our data.  I believe we will
get sensible attribution anyway if we become a successful project. :)