[OSM-talk] License plan - minimum-legalese option

[Ed Avis]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>For the benefit of countries where a database right exists, and 'for the
>>avoidance of doubt' as the ODbL says, add a short remark that the OSM
>>foundation (which is the entity which has collated together all of the
>>individual bits of mapmaking work into a giant database) will not assert its
>>database right to stop distribution of OSM data, provided it's done under the
>>CC-BY-SA.
> 
>What gives the OSMF special DB right to the collection of user-owned
>CC-BY-SA data as opposed to anyone else running a mirror of the DB?

If the OSMF doesn't in fact have the right to stop people using and distributing
the database under database right laws, the above permission notice is redundant
but harmless.

If it does have that power, just as well to waive it so we can all get on with
sharing the data under CC-BY-SA as intended.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>