[OSM-talk] change OSM documentation license to CC 4.0

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Sep 11, 2022, 01:30 by osm at tobias-knerr.de:

> On 06.09.22 at 19:22, Stephan Knauss wrote:
>
>> Could we please upgrade this to a CC BY SA 4.0 license to avoid especially for US users doing slight mistakes in attribution a lawsuit claim of 150k USD?
>>
>> https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/08/copyleft-trolls/
>>
>
> Seems like a decent argument in favour of an upgrade. Maybe it's worth bringing up the idea on https://wiki.osm.org/Talk:Wiki as well so more of the active wiki editors see it?
>
> If there is some favorable reception, I guess a next step could be to check with LWG for any potential issues and downsides.
>
See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki#Updating_the_wiki's_license

I guess that consulting with LWG would be the next step if someone is interested
in working on this.

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