Tordanik wrote: > The CC-BY-SA is popular, understandable and easy to implement for > users of our data. It does not build legal barriers that make using OSM > much harder than it strictly needs to be, which encourages people to > use OSM in creative, productive and unexpected ways. Continued > publication of the OSM database under CC-BY-SA will therefore > help us fulfil our project's mission, and can be implemented > without disruption of the ongoing licensing process.
Most of what you've said reads, to me, like an argument for licensing OSM under a non-sharealike licence - either true public domain or attribution-only. "Easy to comply with"? Couldn't be easier. "Popular and trusted"? If it's good enough for the US Government, it's good enough for me[1]. "Collective attribution"? Yes, an attribution-only licence can do that no problem. "Future-proofness"? The trend in geodata is clearly converging towards attribution-only; pretty much all the big Government releases have been such. "Uncertainty and doubt"? You don't get much more clear-cut than a concise licence/waiver such as the UK's Open Government Licence or ODC's PDDL. "Inadequate protection"? Of course, PD or attribution-only offers none of this so-called "protection". But if you're saying you're happy to stick with a licence whose provisions are generally believed to be of uncertain applicability to data[2], it seems to me much more _honest_ to offer the data on equal terms to all-comers, rather than the current situation where good guys abide by the letter of the licence and bad guys don't. cheers Richard [1] should not be taken as an endorsement of military operations [2] which I think is a fair summary of copyright-only licences such as the CC ones: there's no doubt that copyright applies in some circumstances in some jurisdictions and I've not seen anyone sane argue it couldn't; there's also no doubt that there's an increasing amount of case law showing that copyright certainly doesn't always protect collections of facts. -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-A-case-for-CT-CC-BY-SA-tp6613895p6616159.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
