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

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 13:33:10 GMT 2010


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:34, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Why would it be difficult? If a node was created under license X and
has only been edited by other users allowing license X then it's under
license X.




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