Hi, SteveC wrote: >> I'm glad we have settled that Creative Commons officially suggested to >> us that we use CC0 for OpenStreetMap, rather than this just being a >> personal opinion of an individual as you seemed to suggest earlier.
> Um, no, I don't think I've seen it. do you have a link? http://www.sciencecommons.org/resources/readingroom/comments-on-odbl Then, http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2009-June/002508.html and http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2009-June/002513.html which you know because you replied to them. In February 2008, the OSM Wiki contained the following words written by yourself: "We would have liked Creative Commons to have offered a sharealike/attribution data licence that we could adopt. However, their position is that map data should be dedicated to the public domain, ..." http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Open_Data_License_FAQ&oldid=77256 When I inquired, I received the following response from OSMF board member RichardF who was in charge at the time: "Creative Commons' position is this (summarised from an e-mail to OSMF by John Wilbanks, head of Science Commons, to which CC has expressly delegated its policy on data licensing) ..." This was in the February 2008 legal-talk thread "Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime" which you know because you wrote half of the messages in it. I hope that suffices to refresh any lost memory ;-) Bye Frederik (Fuer talk-de: Eine Liste von offiziellen CC-Statements, die aussagen, dass sie die ODbL nicht gut finden, dass Daten CC0 bzw. PD sein sollten, sowie ein Verweis auf eine Wikiseite, die Steve selbst im Februar gefuellt hatte mit den Worten "... allerdings ist es die Position con Creative Commons, dass alle Kartendaten public domain sein sollten...".) _______________________________________________ Talk-de mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
