[OSM-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're going

Longbow4u 2longbow at gmx.de
Wed Jan 9 16:16:59 GMT 2008


It is not proven that CC-BY-SA does not work for maps. I think it is working
perfectly. The last thing we would need is to get an alternative copyleft
licence which is not compatible with any other important material. After the
proposed revision of the GFDL by the Free Software Foundation our maps will
probably be compatible with Wikipedia. If we would go for another copyleft
licence this compatibility would not materialise. That does not make sense.

I saw the great presentation of Fredrick Ramm at 24C3. My compliments for it.
But I personally did not agree with his statement on the licensing issue.
Everyone of course may have his own opinion, or his own reason for contributing. 

Perhaps there should have been a double licensing regime from the start, like
with MySQL, but that did not happen. Or a statement that the data would be
available under CC-BY-SA with attribution assigned to Openstreetmap.org. I hope
User:OJW will restart his work on a page where all contributors to OSM are
listed, to which some user of our maps can link to for attribution.

Longbow4u

Pro CC-BY-SA 2.0





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