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

[John Smith]

2009/12/15 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> Again, I don't remember saying that.  And if I did, I apologize.

Sorry if I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure you mentioned it.

> In any case, if OSM decides to take the position that my contributions are
> not copyrightable, and therefore they are free to incorporate them into an
> ODBL project, that means I can take their ODBL project and incorporate it
> into my CC-BY-SA project.  That would probably be the best case scenario,
> actually.

Actually you wouldn't since ODBL would prevent you contractually from
copying their data unless you abide by the license, which is the whole
point of switching to something else other than cc-by-sa in the first
place.