[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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