[OSM-talk] open data

[Etienne]

On 9/22/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
> Tom Carden wrote:
>
> > Ahem.  I think "helped Steve to hold on" sounds a bit loaded there,
> > Lars.  I don't think it's fair to imply that he wants to hold onto
>
> You're right.  I don't want to put load or blame on Steve, I only
> want to drop it from myself.  I could have phrased this better.
>
> An interesting scenario is this: If OSMF suddenly were to say
> "we've changed our minds. all our data are now in the public
> domain", would this be interpreted as similar to what CDDB did?


We (the OSMF) can't relicense the data under a different license.  Nor can
anyone else.  That is exactly the protection that the SA clause provides.

On the other hand, anyone can take the data and and do what they like with
it, but if they publish it they must publish it under the same license.

Etienne
(Today I'm feeling more inclined to CC-BY-SA, but tomorrow is another day).





CDDB, the music compact disc database, now known as Gracenote, is
> eternally impopular because of the way they "stole" the
> community-collected data, went commercial, and made it proprietary
> in March 2001.  Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB
>
> In the scenario I sketch here, the similarity is that the central
> instance asserts authority over the community's data.  The
> difference is that it goes PD rather than proprietary.
>
> You might say that such a move is impossible because the OSMF
> doesn't own copyright to the data, since that is held by the
> individual contributors.  But if you begin by asserting that this
> kind of data cannot be copyrighted, the motion becomes far easier.
>
>
> --
>   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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