[OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

[Anthony]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:

> On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Anthony wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:22 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Sebastian Hohmann wrote:
> > > I don't know about that legal stuff in detail, but I agree that CC0
> > > would probably be the best licence. If OSM won't go and really try to
> > > sue people, why protect the data? And why protect the data at all?
> >
> >
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=bsd+vs+gpl&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g5
> >
> > doesn't apply to Geodata.
>
> Because...?
>

Same reason that CC-BY-SA doesn't apply to geodata.  It mostly isn't
protected by copyright law.

The purpose of copyleft is to free data from copyright - not to force people
to share.
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