[OSM-talk] License plan

[Dave Stubbs]

2009/3/2 MP <singularita at gmail.com>:
> On 02/03/2009, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
>> MP <singularita <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>  >As for the people who can't be reached/refused to accept new license -
>>  >what about tagging such data with some tag like "license=cc_by_sa" to
>>  >warn people that this part is licensed otherwise and keep the data in
>>  >database?
>>
>>
>> I don't think that would work.  If some parts of the data are CC-BY-SA, and some
>>  parts are under a new licence, then the resulting database )or maps derived from
>
> Well, if you need the data for personal use - you can use them even
> with mixed license. If you need to distribute them, etc ... you could
> filter the cc-by-sa data out.
>
> This would allow the remaining cc-by-sa data to be iteratively deleted
> and then redrawn under "correct" license. I think this could be
> viable, if there would be only small part of such data. (so the period
> in which the data won't be properly distributable will be quite small,
> perhaps few days till all is redrawn)
>

You probably don't mean it that way, but "redrawn" here sounds
suspiciously like "copy", which of course you can't do :-)
You'd obviously have to redo from scratch, which if there's anything
remotely significant would take more than a few days.

Dave