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

[Anthony]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Unless, some share-alike advocates would say, the node was created with
> reference to a point Y that was share-alike licensed and thus becomes a
> derived work.
>
> Also, all this is nice & dandy as long as we operate in the "protection
> of individual items" space; as soon as we move to the world of database
> protection, then all this becomes moot because you would not even be
> allowed to extract a group of PD objects from the collection without the
> permission of the database owner (unless it is considered insubstantial).
>

How exactly does one get protection as a database owner?  It's unclear to me
how OSMF would get protection as a database owner since they're not the ones
actually doing anything.
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