[OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

[Brendan Morley]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:08:15 +1000, John Smith wrote:

>2009/12/14 Brendan Morley <morb.gis at beagle.com.au>:
>> And the copyleft mindset of the LWP continues to perpetuate substantial "legal [...] restrictions on [...] use."  So really, the OSM project 
has
>> failed to deliver on this latent demand.

>I've seen the same comments regarding GPL v BSD licenses, free and
>open are rather ambiguous.

I agree!  (-:

When pondering this earlier today I realised one of the fundamental ambiguities is:

Is freedom/openness enforced on the dataset *itself*? Or
Is freedom/openness enforced on your right to *use* that dataset?

I'd always assumed the second option.


Brendan


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