[OSM-talk] Using editors to indicate license preference.

[John Smith]

2010/1/17 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:36 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> and warning PD advocates if they edit CC-BY-SA/ODBL information and
>> that the changes won't be public domain.
>
> Nice idea, but the main difficulty I see is that contributing to
> openstreetmap is a collaborative process - if you allow for different
> licenses within the DB I think it will be difficult to classify even a
> single node/way as "having" a particular license.

PD isn't a license, so much as a choice, ODBL can take PD data, but
you can't take ODBL data and make it PD, so in this respect it's a
fairly straight forward issue.