[OSM-talk] Users who disagree to ODbL but want PD / CC0

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Floris Looijesteijn wrote:
> There are at least a few users who have disagreed to ODbL
> but are ok with PD (or CC0).

 From phase 4 on we only allow people to edit if they have agreed to the 
CT, so we'd definitely have to disable the account of that user. But 
since his data is available under PD, I don't see a reason why we should 
remove the data at all.

Currently in our user table in the database we have information about 
whether the user has agreed to CT and whether he has additionally 
clicked the PD checkbox. It would be possible, from a database point of 
view, to set the PD option without setting the "agreed to CT" field. We 
should do this manually for those users who haven't agreed. In all other 
aspects they would be treated like someone who hasn't agreed (could not 
continue to edit etc.) but the PD flag would indicate to us that when it 
comes to deleting data we don't have to delete that person's data.

In addition to the publicized "users_agreed.txt" and 
"users_not_agreed.txt" files we'd also have to have a "users_pd.txt" 
file so that thrid-party services like all those coloured maps or editor 
plugins could know that data edited by that person is clean even though 
they have not agreed.

I think your suggestions are entirely too complex.

Bye
Frederik

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