On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 6, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote: >> [blah, blah, blah] > > I hope that I did make my concerns clear without offending anyone too > greatly. Regardless, it would probably be more helpful to say what I > hope could be done to address my concerns, instead of just more-or- > less complaining. > > > I really would like to see a license as simple as the following: > > For data users - > 0. Open Street Map collects and creates public domain map data. > 1. Attribution of Open Street Map is expected. We make it easy. > 2. Contributing back or freely sharing modifications is strongly > encouraged. > > For map editors - > 1. Only add essentially uncopyrighted map data. > 2. You are welcome join the list of contributors. > > > > This is pretty much how the Public Domain Data Licence with Community > Norms works, right? (See > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Open_Data_License#Criticism > ) Set up community norms to say "BY-SA" and it seems like a perfect > fit for the data and (hopefully) most contributors' wishes. > > I see a lot of benefits to this, certainly over the current license, > but even over the proposed set of new licenses: > - Easy for contributors large and small to understand. > - Much easier to check existing datasets for compatibility. > - Doesn't change much for data users in the open source community. > - Enables commercial use by small companies who want to do the right > thing, but can't just ignore grey areas that leave them or their > customers liable. > - It wouldn't change much as far as abuse by large corporations, as > I'm sure their lawyers are earning more than our lawyers anyway. It > actually seems like a clearer license with more indemnity could > encourage a bigger company that is still somewhat concerned with it's > PR credibility to use the data as intended. Wouldn't the resulting > publicity do much more for OSM than a viral license? > > Right now the current and proposed licenses only seems to hurt small > businesses, who can afford neither proprietary data nor the > liabilities of the remaining grey areas. (I hope that precluding any > sort of commercial use of the data is not the intent of most > contributors.) If the data is in the public domain, sure some bad guys > might abuse it, but please don't disregard the benefit that companies > willing to follow the spirit of the community norms could bring to the > project. > > thanks, > -natevw > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk >
Please continue this sort of discussion on legal-talk@ http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
