[OSM-talk] open data

[Andy Robinson]

Paul Dixon
>Sent: 21 September 2006 10:54 AM
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>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] open data
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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.
>>
>> 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.

I'd originally thought the same but now I would not go the next step for OSM
itself and push for it all to be public domain contribution. I believe that
the effort and time that has and will be expended in making OSM a success
(creating and offering OpenData) should be recognised beyond the point where
the data it holds gets used in a commercial or other OSM look-alike.


Cheers

Andy

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