On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:47:47 +0200, Erik Johansson <erjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If ODBL existed in the same variants as CC does, this would be easier.
I support CC very strongly, but I don't recommend licence variants. They make things even more confusing and incompatible. OSM can be viewed as layers. There's the points, the ways/routes/paths, and the rendered maps. This moves from data to design. ODbL covers the lower, BY-SA can cover the higher. The middle I don't like to think about. ;-) Data *may* be copyrightable in the US (it depends who you ask), we have the DB right in the EU, and there are examples of contract law being used to restrict use of geodata. So users of data are in their wild and natural state not always unrestricted. The question is whether these restrictions are bad enough to require the (sledge)hammer of a copyleft or share-alike-style system. - Rob. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
