[OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

[Vincent MEURISSE]

Sebastian Spaeth > thanks, I didn't know the legal list.

About problems with cc licenses, I agree with most of them and I think
that have a new licence can be good.

About PD users, I don't think it can be possible to use there work in
public domain.

The work from an author is most of time :
1 download data from osm serveur
2 make some work on the data
3 upload work

The step 2 is make a derivative work from downloaded data in 1. So the
new data can be used as PD only if all data from step 1 is PD. As
there is no way to be sure of that, I don't think there is a way to
use PD data.



On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
> At 01:33 PM 4/05/2008, Ari Torhamo wrote:
>  >la, 2008-05-03 kello 17:39 -0400, Ted Mielczarek kirjoitti:
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> >> Why else are we contributing
>  >> this data if not for people to *use* it?
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>  >I suggest you go and present this breath taking argument to RMS, and we
>  >might soon get an updated, more free version of GPL.
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>  >Ari
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>  The GPL works very well as it already allows folks to *use* software with no restriction on what they make with that use.
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>  Adding something new to GPL software source code is clearly different from using existing GPL software to do something new.  That distinction is far from clear when using collations of facts like OSM data.  So a different model is required.  The PD argument is a very easy and elegant solution, but it makes some contributors very uncomfortable.   The new license being worked on seeks to make a, hopefully, comprehensible distinction for factual data.
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>  Mike
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