[OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 22:35:43 GMT 2009


On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 22:32, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> By US law, this data is in and must remain in the public domain.

No, it must be in the public domain at the time of its release by the
US federal government but can be re-licensed later by anyone anywhere.
We've currently re-licensed it under the CC-BY-SA and will relicense
it again under the WTFPL or the ODbL or whatever we end up using with
no problems at all.




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