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

Ian Haylock haylocki at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 5 11:41:25 GMT 2008


Hi,

Bruce Cowan <lists at bcowan.fastmail.co.uk> wrote: 
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.
Surely if a person releases something under PD, he/she is giving up all rights to that information, be it software, data, etc.
So what's to stop OSM doing what they want with the data.

For instance if the whole of the OSM database was public domain. A private company could write some mapping software that uses OSM data,  And there would be nothing to stop them selling this software and data together.

Or have I got this PD thing all wrong ?

I'm also happy for my GPXs to be PD, but not my edits.



 


Cheers, Ian
       
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