[OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

[Ed Avis]

Richard Fairhurst <richard <at> systemed.net> writes:

>>Why not do what Wikipedia did and work together with the licence authors

>I expressly asked this a couple of years ago:
>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2009-February/001971.html
>
>and was told "no":
>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2009-February/001982.html

Right.  But since then the situation has changed.  CC have made clear they're
committed to supporting the use of CC licences (including BY-SA) for databases.
Version 4 of the licence would be an excellent opportunity to make the kinds of
changes that would improve it for OSM (even though, in my view, version 2 of
CC-BY-SA has served us well so far).  More broadly, having two separate copyleft
silos for open data can't be in anyone's interest and we should try to get
compatibility or a merger between the CC and ODC share-alike licences.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>