[OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

[John Smith]

On 3 July 2010 22:40, Oliver (skobbler) <osm.oliver.kuehn at gmx.de> wrote:
> If it is for the sake of compliance with licenses of data donors then there
> will always be cases that fit with one license type and don't fit with with
> other license types. It might also be that the majority of data donors
> prefer a more restricted license. If this is the main point it would be
> interesting to see any hard facts that a cc-by license would lead to more
> data donations.

I'm not aware of any entities that would share more data if OSM used a
cc-by compatible license, in fact I've been told some governments
agencies are unhappy that they have to share at all, but they
definitely would not be happen with anything less than an attribution
style license.