[OSM-talk] open data

[Etienne]

On 9/22/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
> > On 21 Sep 2006, at 22:48, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> > > This is where you're mistaken.  If OSM wasn't here to promote
> > > copyleft, all data would have been given to the public domain.
> >
> > As ever, Lars, I like your idealism, but I don't think that's supported
> > by history.
>
> It's not my idealism, it's Steve's.  He set up OSM to use CC-SA-BY
> (or something to that effect) long before I entered this project.
> Many others, including Etienne and myself, have been far more open
> towards using the public domain.


Hmmm... some days I think BY would be best, other days I think that SA is
best.  I can see benefits and drawbacks with any license that might be an
option.  I don't think making our own license would really solve anything -
we'd still be required to make some decisions (which we are not very well
organised to do).

Anyway, this  http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/#gpl-bsd seems
interesting and vaguely relevant.

Etienne
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