On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: >>>>> SteveC schreef: >>>>>> You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? >>>>> Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't >>>>> protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? >>>> >>>> to do what, relicense? >>> >>> Exactly; if your statement is sound. CC-BY-SA doesn't protect us, thus >>> doesn't protect us against ourselves, thus OSMF could declare the data >>> today as ODbL, and wait to get sued by the editors that doesn't like >>> this change, if the CC-BY-SA holds the relicense has just been made a >>> copyright infringement and therefore wasn't required in the first place. >> >> So you really are saying the LWG / OSMF should just ignore everyone and >> change the license? >> >> I think it's better to build a consensus and vote and so on personally, even >> with all the ups and downs. > > Steve, > > I think he wanted to point ironical situation that you claim that > CC-BY-SA doesn't work. So, it doesn't work, there are workarounds, > let's use this workaround to relicense everything to ODbL :) > > Anyway, you can call him a troll, but I agree I so far haven't heard > sound arguments why CC-BY-SA "doesn't work" and what "work" actually > means. Doesn't work for Cloudmade? Doesn't work for community? Doesn't > what? And please, don't refer to old mailing list posts, explain it in > your words, because it is different disscussion and different > situation.
Have you seen this? http://www.osmfoundation.org/images/3/3c/License_Proposal.pdf and this? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_Yes Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk