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

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 22:31, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:46 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/1/18 DavidD <thewinch at gmail.com>:
>>> OSM has masses of CC-BY-SA data and contributors. How will the PD
>>> people deal with that? Start replacing the existing CC-BY-SA data and
>>> reverting any edits to PD data by CC-BY-SA contributors?
>>
>> The point more is for new data, than existing
>
> If this is only applicable to "new data", why not upload that to a
> separate server, and later import it into OSM as necessary?
>
> I'm not even sure that any contribution to OSM can really be called
> "new data", as most "new" data will be "created with reference to a
> point Y that was share-alike licensed and thus becomes a derived work"
> - as Frederik pointed out.

For what it's worth the OSMF legal counsel does not agree that data is
viral in this way:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Closed_Issues#Features_touched_by_multiple_contributors.2C_not_all_of_whom_sign_up_to_new_terms