[OSM-talk] License plan

[MP]

>>Also, technically, when "mixing licenses", we won't have mashup of
>>cc-by-sa and odbl, we will have mashup of cc-by-sa without consent to
>>relicense later under odbl and cc-by-sa with consent to relicense
>>later under odbl.
>
> I guess that would work.  The resulting collection would be distributable under
> CC-BY-SA only.  If all of the old work without the extra consent is deleted, and
> all work derived from it (see earlier discussion), then you could distribute the
> result under the ODbL.

I think this should be the way we'll be going instead of deletion.
While it will postpone the moment from which all the data will be
ODbLed, perhaps maybe year or alike in future, no or very little
deletion would be necessary.

> ... PD mappers just have better to do mapping with JOSM
> and save their incontestable edits as an own local copy for the future needs to
> be uploaded into OSM PD-repository or something.  Main OSM database is not a
> place to store PD data to be extracted out afterwards. I suppose it is not even
> OK to add POIs with Potlatch and read them back to JOSM for making a local copy.

Why not? Unless someone modifies the data in meantime, what is wrong
about reading back your own data as PD?

> One question:  All edits of PD mappers could of course be tranferred under the
> new license even without asking us.  But is is possible to connect our PD
> declarations in the wiki with our OSM data in a reliable way so that the tranfer
> could be automatic?  User names used for mapping and in the wiki are not the
> same thing, or are they? ...

No, they are not. In my case they are different (the one I picked for
wiki was already taken by someone else for mapping, so I had to use
another name for mapping). While I have on my wiki page (User:Bilbo)
the template that tells everybody my edits are PD, the template
actually does not tell which user's edits. So in my case, the matching
username in mapping is completely different person.

Best would be to add the ability directly to OSM (perhaps to the user
settings somewhere)

Martin