-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi Frederik,
Frederik Ramm schreef: > Stefan de Konink wrote: >> 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. > > This is factually correct, but would you not expect a degree of > "friendliness" over and above the call of law from those who run the > project you contribute to? If we can get sponsors for servers maybe a sponsoring for a legal case wouldn't be a bad idea at all. If the OSMF could make a clear statement 'if CC-BY-SA holds we are not going to change it', the friendliness is there and it will be in all our best interest. > I don't think that "sorry guys, we tricked you into contributing under > an invalid license, now all your stuff is basically PD anyway and we're > going to relicense it in any way we want" is an attitude that would > attract anyone to the project! Hey SteveC tricked us all in here! Not to blame the rest of the board. ;) And Steve, I am still thankful I ended up in this project when I was Googling other people collecting GPS trails :) > And I don't think you are honestly suggesting that either. The point that Steve makes is based on the fact he can't trust the CC-BY-SA anymore for the function he has used it before (mainly no other licenses being available). The only way to prove this would be a case. And don't forget, if a full database dump is made available under CC-BY-SA knowingly it is all PD, wouldn't that be a MUCH worse situation in this respect? Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAksexI8ACgkQYH1+F2Rqwn0ZDgCfUL+uJ7xIIsxz8MKIfThP6rxt 8TMAoIB6EHSzIe8ZHMRJGhqNbCxYypJw =SuxJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
