[OSM-talk] PD aspiration statistics

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Hi,

The licensing working group has been discussing about a thing 
called PD aspirations
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_113gtw62wdf

Excerpt from the minutes

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5. "OpenStreetMap PD-Contributor Terms"

Freimut Kahrs wrote to us concerning "an issue that has 
recently emerged on German and international blogs and 
mailing lists", suggesting that mappers should be able 
to choose between two different Contributor Terms offered 
by OSMF:

1. CT-ODbL (the current 1.2.4 Contributor Terms)

2. "CT-PD" , which releases personal contributions into 
public domain and allows direct use as such by end users 
of the OSM geodata set.

A discussion concluded that there are disadvantages. It 
was also felt that, while attractive to a segment of the 
community, it goes against the 2007 consensus of choosing 
the latter of going PD or go something like CC-BY-SA but
written for data. We noted that we are already giving an 
opportunity to folks to indicate their PD aspirations.  
It would need work on whether it is legally feasible and 
would also require changes to OSM's end user licensing, i.e. 
not just ODbL.
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Are there plans to publish some day the statistics about how 
many users have been willing to indicate their PD aspirations 
and how wide a segment we are talking about? Without statistics
the bare opportunity to indicate PD aspirations is not very 
much to be happy about.