[OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

[John Smith]

On 10 August 2010 21:17, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> The reason I suggested to LWG that they drop the relicensing option from the
> Contributor Terms, and limit future options to CC-BY-SA or ODbL[1], was
> precisely that: a spirit of compromise.

And I liked that proposal, I even said so on the talk-au list a week or so ago:

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2010-July/006922.html

> Personally I'd love OSM to be PD, yet I suggested a scheme to LWG that would
> rule out OSM _ever_ being relicensed as PD. "Compromise" is probably too
> mild a word for that.

It doesn't rule out PD at all, it just makes it harder to achieve
without asking most contributors again.