[OSM-talk] Baghdad copyright, WAS OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator

[David Groom]

Nick you do have a valid point. Just to clarify the point I made about releasing the mapping I have done so far in Baghdad:

"All contribution made by me to the OSM database within a 20km radius of Baghdad, and contributed up until 1 March 2007, are released into the public domain, all other data contributed by me remains under the terms of the OSM license."

I wouldn't necessarily want anyone to think I meant that when the mapping of Baghdad was complete then all that data should be released into PD.  Not that I necessarily have anything against PD, its just that I think until consensus is reached then it would be wrong to start branching data under different licenses.

But a plea to OSM foundation or whoever:  We do need to sort out this licensing problem, and get legal advice rather than us endlessly discussing it on the mailing list.  If the current licensing complexities have put ITN off using our map then we have missed a great marketing opportunity.

David




  From: Nick Whitelegg 
  To: talk at openstreetmap.org 
  Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 6:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?


  > (Public Domain?) 

  One thing I've always wondered about Public Domain. If data is Public Domain, is there a risk that a commercial organisation could "steal" it, place restrictive licencing on it, claim copyright over it and thus take it proprietary?

  Can data have a "public domain" licence and be copyrighted, thus allowing the original data owner to take action if it was infringed in this way?

  Of course OSM could always start putting in its own Easter Eggs.... :-)

  Nick

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