[OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

[Anthony]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> For a long time we assumed that the current license did indeed work, and we
> essentially told everyone who signed up that their data was protected.
>

And what does it mean for the data to be "protected"?

It doesn't mean that people who *use* the data have to (offer to) release
their database.  It means they can't take the data, add new data, and
copyright that new data.

But if the data isn't copyrightable, neither the old data *nor* the new data
will be copyrighted.
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