It is not proven that CC-BY-SA does not work for maps. I think it is working perfectly. The last thing we would need is to get an alternative copyleft licence which is not compatible with any other important material. After the proposed revision of the GFDL by the Free Software Foundation our maps will probably be compatible with Wikipedia. If we would go for another copyleft licence this compatibility would not materialise. That does not make sense.
I saw the great presentation of Fredrick Ramm at 24C3. My compliments for it. But I personally did not agree with his statement on the licensing issue. Everyone of course may have his own opinion, or his own reason for contributing. Perhaps there should have been a double licensing regime from the start, like with MySQL, but that did not happen. Or a statement that the data would be available under CC-BY-SA with attribution assigned to Openstreetmap.org. I hope User:OJW will restart his work on a page where all contributors to OSM are listed, to which some user of our maps can link to for attribution. Longbow4u Pro CC-BY-SA 2.0 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
