[OSM-talk] Data Licencing

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting Ian Davis <iand at internetalchemy.org>:

> On 04/05/2006 09:20, Erik Johansson wrote:
>> Further I really hope this will not be a long lived discussion. ;-)
>> (sorry nothing against you Ian, I know lots of people care. Someone
>> should create a osm-license mailing list and take these discussions
>> there? Similar to Debian-legal)
>>
> No offense taken :) I'm happy to take these discussions to another
> list.

Yeah, agreed. There's lots I could say about this but as Erik says,  
these discussions tend to be offputting, boring and frustrating in  
equal measure for everyone except us copyright geeks.

+1 vote for an osm-legal list.

(FWIW, I agree with the general consensus that, under UK law at least,  
OSM work is copyrightable - just like any commercially available  
geodata. The GPS tracks may not be... but I don't see that as a  
problem.)

Richard