[OSM-talk] Meaning of

[Jeffrey Martin]

Some things I have read on the
internet say that in some jurisdictions it may not be possible to place
things in the public domain.

There are two big problems I've read about. (You might want to move
this to OSM-legal.)

First is that someone can include public domain material
in their own work and not tell the reader. The reader then does not know
that they can copy or make derivative works from those public domain
portions
without permission.

Second, derivative works are now under a new copyright and no longer free
(libre).

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I concluded that I'd rather see my contributions in public domain and
> added
> the PD-user template to show that.  I wonder what does it mean in
> practice.
> Is it now possible for me or anybody else to extract all features I have
> created and which have never been touched by other users?  How about ways
> created originally by me but edited later by others?  How should I work
> in the future to guarantee that my edits will be free? Should I do all
> new work in some other environment and store it there before donating
> it to OSM or what?  I am now only speaking about creating totally new
> features, not editing anything done by others.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
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