If we are drinking beer there is no way I'm talking about licensing of
data.
So help me out here - I'm looking at Creative commons and I see 6
licenses - I assume you are talking about CC-By. Originally OSM was
CCbySA correct?
I think it would help if someone had a list of licenses up that blend
well with ODBL - in my line of work security is the big thing (i.e.
don't let anyone else see this) - licensing not so much.
If they licensed this ODBL and I stuck into OSM would that be like
dividing by 0?
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On 12/01/2013 06:20 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Randal Hale
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'll get the files up shortly - found an issue and I'm working
back through them.
For me the whole license issue is a bit foggy. If public domain
isn't a good one to go with there are multiple imports that are
falling under public domain currently (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue) - most
notably the NYC Building imports (which I understand was passed as
a law
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/NYC_Buildings_Addresses#License>
- but still it is listed as Public Domain ) so I guess I should
ask what are the licenses that are compatible with the ODBL
license (I assuming ODBL is my safest bet for a license)? I hate
to ask but is that somewhere on the wiki?
Public domain is tricky. In the US, it's generally safe, so if there
is an actual dedication, that's fine, but it needs to be stated
explicitly.
The issue of licenses gets complicated, but ODbL is not the ideal
license for this type of situation, CC0 is.
Over beer, someone can and should talk to me about why I don't love
CC0 for everything, but for government data being released to the
public, I think CC0 is absolutely wonderful.
But if there's an explicit Public Domain declaration- that works too,
it just needs to be explicit.
- Serge
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