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

[Liz]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Did imports and Nearmap tracing in Australia start before the 
> relicensing effort, or were you simply not aware of it, or did you not 
> take it seriously?
We started imports a while ago, with the first I recall in 2007.
In 2007 I was not aware of an attempt to relicense OSM, but it was probably 
started by then. What I read on signup was CC-by-SA, and no talk of any future 
change.

Then ODBL was presented, with a fanfare, and later the "Contributor Terms" 
crept out, more quietly.

At the stage of announcement of ODBL we were already using CC-by-SA data from 
the Australian government. At a later date this data was changed to CC-by, and 
we would be able to retain it under ODBL, but not with the Contributor Terms 
which had by then been published.

Nearmap chose to make their orthophotos available to OSM under the current 
licence, CC-by-SA. The email to a few of us yesterday indicated firmly that 
Share-Alike was very important to NearMap, and that there is no possibility of 
the share alike being removed at a later stage.
So ODBL & contributor terms which preserve share-alike would possibly be 
acceptable.