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

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Thu Jun 16 21:15:38 BST 2011


I'm  staying out of the discussion, just please remember the PD-checkbox 
has no legal meaning, as documented here:

http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License#What_Are_The_Choices.3F

Any retroactive change just isn't going to work.

Simon

Am 16.06.2011 22:08, schrieb Florian Lohoff:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 07:49:36PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> 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.
> This should have been an option right from the beginning.
>
> PD and ODBL/CT are non mutual exclusive options but the frontend makes
> it one - So i am unable to click on PD without accepting CT/ODBL which
> i think are the wrong way.
>
> Flo
>
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