Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist@...> writes: > > I wonder if data you download now or did so in the past from OSM > servers can be used as PD data. There are some users who have publicly > declared that they consider their contributions to OSM to be in the > public domain. For simplicity I'd like to restrict this question to > users who have either made this declaration in their user description > or have linked their wiki account from their user description (i.e. it > is clear, which OSM username the declaration was made for and that the > user was the owner of this account). > > Is it possible to download this data from OSM servers (or > mirrors/extracts/elaborations from this) under a cc-by-sa or ODbL > license and still consider it PD due to the dual licensing, the user > has expressed he wishes his data to be under?
There are no such data in OSM. PD declaration in the user page is just a manifest but it does not have any real meaning. Discussion about PD was directed into a special legal-general mailing list in October, 2008. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-general Best place to read about OSM and PD is still the legal-talk archives from the the same time, October 2008 http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-October/thread.html -Jukka Rahkonen- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk