[OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

[Bruce Cowan]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 12:31 +0000, Tom Evans wrote:
> > Stage  3  -  Email  all  OSM  users  who  have  contributed   
> 
> > data  with  the option of  re-licensing  their  data  
> 
>   
> 
> If we're going to do this anyway, can we not allow users to mark their preference as public domain too?  It seems a significant number of OSM participants may be perfectly happy to have their data given away PD, and storing an option per user would make this possible.  We're going to do that work of asking each user anyway, so why not let each user mark themselves as
> one of:
> 
> 
> a) Public Domain
> b) Open Database License
> c) CC by SA (the default now)
> 
> 
> 
> Then keep this preference.  People wanting a PD map can then quite legitimately extract the PD subset of data.  We'll have to create the tool for extraction by license choice anyway.

What happens if a non-PD editor edits PD data? Does it become non-PD or does it stay PD? What if the editor doesn't want their edits to be PD?

This is why we need one licence for everyone.

I'm happy for my GPXs to be PD, but not my edits.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <bcowan at fastmail.co.uk>