[OSM-talk] open data

Paul Dixon paul at elphin.com
Thu Sep 21 10:53:52 BST 2006


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> If more and more people were to unilaterally consent to make their 
> data available under a less restrictive license then the polluting 
> effects of the SA license would become less and less, until it becomes 
> almost irrelevant.
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> None of us are lawyers here, but most of us have technical skills.  We 
> don't have the skills to solve this problem by making new types of 
> copyright license, so lets try to solve the problem using technology.
>
> Who here would be prepared to unilaterally relicense their data under 
> CC-BY (not SA)?
>
I intend to dedicate my tracklogs and ways edited by me to the public 
domain, but I'd be happy to contribute to OSM under a CC-BY licence.




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