[OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

Matt Amos zerebubuth at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 22:25:26 BST 2010


On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Matt Amos <zerebubuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OSMF is not moving to "a PD license disguised as BY-SA"
>
> Then why don't they ever talk about the fact that the contents are
> going to be released under DbCL?

they do. and it's in the contributor terms: "ODbL 1.0 for the database
and DbCL 1.0 for the individual contents of the database". the
database is attribution and share-alike. the contents, as facts, hold
no copyright - so copyright law can't be used to enforce attribution
and share-alike conditions. collections of facts, as databases, can
hold rights and can be used to enforce those conditions.

cheers,

matt




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