[OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

Jane Smith janesmithosm at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 07:14:38 BST 2010


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Aun Yngve Johnsen
<lists at gimnechiske.org>wrote:

> I believe if you are the owner of the data,


But what is an owner? Ownership is the lash of the bourgoise. What you own
is owned by us all. Properety is theft.

Therefore those who steel the map from us the mappers need to be brought to
heel and allow us, the real mappers, to own the data and stop this 'new
license'.




> you can put any license you care on it and liberate it for use with OSM
> regardless of chosen license. As long as you state in some way that the data
> is free for use within OSM or something.
>
> brgds
> Aun Johnsen
>
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> On 31/08/2010, at 18:46, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>>
>> When I map, sometimes I add sources to my contributions. It could be a
>> bus route relation where I may add the GPS trace I took while riding the
>> bus as the source for the route. Other times if I name a street I may
>> use a geotagged/geolocated photo of the street sign as a source.(thus
>> proving that the name is the same as the one shown on the street sign)
>> In some cases where I want to fine-adjust the location of a geotagged
>> photo using for example the rendered OSM Mapnik images, will part of my
>> photo(or the photo in whole) become CC-BY-SA-2.0? (this question arised
>> after I considered making all my geotagged -in EXIF- photos public
>> domain CC-0-1.0-Universal)
>>
>> Another question about GPS traces: When I contribute to OpenStreetMap
>> with my GPS traces which I upload, do they become available under any
>> specific license or are they just uploaded? (if they are just uploaded
>> then they are 'All Rights Reserved' apart from giving special permission
>> to the OSM project to use them)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Niklas
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