-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lars Aronsson wrote: | Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: | |> I think that we should reduce the time before the data becomes |> public domain from year of editors death (which will be very |> hard for someone in 100 years time to find out) + 70 years to |> year of entry into the DB + about 10 years. | | Only traditional copyright expires after life+70 years. This is | applicable to software source code and might be applicable to | artwork, such as mapnik renderings. | | But database rights only last 15 years after the year of | publication. All the discussion of which license to use for OSM | data, is only a matter for the first 15 years. Any planet.osm from | 2006 will enter the public domain at the end of 2021.
15 years is good. I think we should make it clear that we believe in the 15 years number, and if the term is extended in the future, or someone is from a different jurisdiction, we won't assert more than 15 years. Robert (Jamie) Munro Ps. does that mean that if someone has a 1993 or earlier postcode DB lying around, we can bulk load it into Free the Postcode? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHqHEAz+aYVHdncI0RAkCmAJ9CGgIfRIPD8T8CH5+iBT7hkDT8dwCgypAf IIeyvurmcBasBkMaNEL47k8= =eRYz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
