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

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Tue Dec 8 21:13:28 GMT 2009


On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:

>>>>> SteveC schreef:
>>>>>> You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone?
>>>>> Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't
>>>>> protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so?
>>>> 
>>>> to do what, relicense?
>>> 
>>> Exactly; if your statement is sound. CC-BY-SA doesn't protect us, thus
>>> doesn't protect us against ourselves, thus OSMF could declare the data
>>> today as ODbL, and wait to get sued by the editors that doesn't like
>>> this change, if the CC-BY-SA holds the relicense has just been made a
>>> copyright infringement and therefore wasn't required in the first place.
>> 
>> So you really are saying the LWG / OSMF should just ignore everyone and change the license?
>> 
>> I think it's better to build a consensus and vote and so on personally, even with all the ups and downs.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I think he wanted to point ironical situation that you claim that
> CC-BY-SA doesn't work. So, it doesn't work, there are workarounds,
> let's use this workaround to relicense everything to ODbL :)
> 
> Anyway, you can call him a troll, but I agree I so far haven't heard
> sound arguments why CC-BY-SA "doesn't work" and what "work" actually
> means. Doesn't work for Cloudmade? Doesn't work for community? Doesn't
> what? And please, don't refer to old mailing list posts, explain it in
> your words, because it is different disscussion and different
> situation.

Have you seen this?

http://www.osmfoundation.org/images/3/3c/License_Proposal.pdf

and this?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_Yes

Yours &c.

Steve





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