[OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

Florian Lohoff f at zz.de
Tue Aug 10 14:57:21 BST 2010


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:49:18PM +1000, John Smith wrote:
> On 10 August 2010 23:44, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:
> > In case i dont care and like PD more than CC-BY-SA or even worse the ODbl i would
> > be more than happy to continue with CC-BY-SA and accept it to fail in court,
> > basically putting the OSM Data into PD ...
> 
> I never really got that, pro-PD people are pro-ODBL because copyright
> may not be enough to cover the database...

I want my data to be as free as possible and i dont buy any of the share-alike
and the "Big corp will steal our data" position.

And if i had to decide PD or share alike i always would decide it to be PD. This
is even more the case the more complicated it gets to "protect" the data. Protect
against WHAT? There is nothing to protect against - we have the data and everybody
should create nice, interesting, useful applications with it. The more rules you have
on usage, the more people using the data one drives away. Nobody wants to read 10 
pages of legal stuff to be shure on can present a slippymap.

If CC-BY-SA is non enforcable as everybody repeats over and over we currently have
a PD database which is perfectly fine for me. Make a social contract which says "It
would be nice if you would attribute to the OSM project" and be done.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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