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

[Robert Kaiser]

Anthony schrieb:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Matt Amos<zerebubuth at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Anthony<osm at inbox.org>  wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Matt Amos<zerebubuth at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> the ODbL is the only example i know of.
>>>
>>> That's certainly a reason to be wary of it.
>>
>> not really. it's on the cutting edge, but that's because we're trying
>> to do something that no-one else has done before: an attribution,
>> share-alike license for factual data.
>
> You don't think one should be wary of the cutting edge?  If no one
> else has done it before, there's probably a reason for that.

Yes, the reason is that nobody has ever made an open database of so many 
hand-collected small facts about the real work yet, OSM is a pioneer 
there and therefore needs new solutions that haven't existed before.

As Matt noted, there's a growing legal opinion that our current data is 
in fact in the PD, as the CC-BY-SA can't be legally applied to it. Is 
that the state you want to have in the future?

Robert Kaiser