-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> Tom Evans wrote: |>> If we're going to do this anyway, can we not allow users to mark |>> their preference as public domain too? It seems a significant |>> number of OSM participants may be perfectly happy to have their data |>> given away PD, and storing an option per user would make this |>> possible. We're going to do that work of asking each user anyway, |>> so why not let each user mark themselves as |>> one of: |>> |>> a) Public Domain |>> b) Open Database License |>> c) CC by SA (the default now) |> Thus far everyone who signs up to the project has already agreed to |> CC-BY-SA. We don't believe it's a viable option for data licensing |> going forward so would not seek to offer it as a choice. |> |> The idea of storing an optional 'PD?' preference per user is an |> interesting one and we'd welcome feedback as to whether there'd be the |> demand for this. Effectively this would be requesting that OSMF, or |> anyone else, creates a public domain database from your contributions. | | One problem with this idea goes back to David's question about | edit history - if we had a per-user PD flag then only objects which | had never been touched by somebody without that flag set could be | included in any PD data set (modulo the whole question of whether | any edits by such people were "significant" which would be hard to | determine automatically).
I think that we should reduce the time before the data becomes public domain from year of editors death (which will be very hard for someone in 100 years time to find out) + 70 years to year of entry into the DB + about 10 years. I don't think any more really helps OSM. The idea that someone in around 100 years time will still have to struggle with the license issues we are setting up now on my data really worries me (I expect most of the community is young enough that we will still be alive more than 30 years from now). Also I think that data should be assigned to the foundation, so that they can allow exceptions absolutely, rather than have to say "Well, I think that's OK, please go and hire your own lawyer to interpret our license". If the community agreed, the foundation could use this as a source of income, like MusicBrainz. This would require the foundation to have a fairly solid democratic basis. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHp6gnz+aYVHdncI0RAmy6AJ4iUqd9lywSE0LJJaiwo5iXBYpW1wCfSnbv cTdkQqrbT/FyAz1Emy+NVno= =JEVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
