I don't understand why some users want their work in PD. The goal of osm is to have a map of the world freely available for anyone. But with PD someone (eg google) can take all the work of osm, correct and complete it, and copyright it in a way that osm cannot reuse the modification. So the copyrighted map will be better than the free one. The license cc by-sa is a good protection against that as it will always allow osm to use derivate work of the original map.
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:01 +0100, Andy Allan wrote: > > And where all the data entered by the PD guys was done without looking > > at the non-PD stuff as a reference? Like a "PD" pub which was > > positioned at the corner of two CC-BY-SA streets, whose coordinates, > > therefore is (arguably) non-PD? Or "PD" rivers that went down the > > middle of a CC-BY-SA cycle-map-contours-background-in-potlatch valley? > > The sooner we're united behind one licence the better. Otherwise things > will just be like the Tories not wanting to say what they'd do better. > > Politics thrown in for a laugh. > -- > Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk