I think you may have misunderstood the whole point of the exercise.
While there may be protectable IP in individual contributions depending
on jurisdiction, maybe even joint rights in the whole database and we
can be fairly sure that the OSM DB would lead to rights wrt EU DB
protection
We have had a request for another big open organisation to re-use our
contributor terms [1] and summary [2] .
Both the terms and the summary are by default already published under
CC-BY-SA 2.0. However, my initial thought it that it is more practical
to (also) offer them under a license that
One of three things can happen with the contributions you added on an
element which was created initially by somebody else:
- Somebody will 'remap' it instead of you before 1st of April
- You will 'remap' it yourself before 1st of April
- It will simply be removed wholesale on the 1st
On 12/12/11 16:08, Michael Collinson wrote:
We have had a request for another big open organisation to re-use our
contributor terms [1] and summary [2] .
Both the terms and the summary are by default already published under
CC-BY-SA 2.0. However, my initial thought it that it is more
