[OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 02:46:57 GMT 2009


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> Well, this particular thread was asking "Why can't we run both [CC-BY-SA and
> the ODbL] indefinitely?"  I gave one answer.  Because the terms of CC-BY-SA
> disallow it.

Aren't you misreading the terms? Say there is user A, with work W,
licensed CC-BY-SA. The terms say that user B cannot take W, and
license it in a way that interferes with CC-BY-SA. It doesn't stop
user A doing so. It's his work, he can do what he wants with it. In
the same way, OSM data belongs to its contributors, who can license it
however they want.

(Not that any of this is relevant, because this is not happening, nor
is proposed seriously.)

Steve




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