On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:12 AM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/12/13 Anthony <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> That's the issue I have, I have no problem giving back to the > >> community, but I don't want commercial companies just sucking up all > >> the data and not giving hardly anything back in return if they extend > >> the map, it's not fair to me or anyone else who chooses to donate our > >> time for "the greater good". > > > > It's perfectly fair. You agreed to license your contributions under > > CC-BY-SA. CC-BY-SA doesn't require that you give anything back to > anyone. > > It only requires that you give credit to the authors and license any > > derivative works that you distribute under CC-BY-SA. > > > > That isn't the debate, the debate is if CC-BY-SA can enforce it or > not, some people claim it can't in some countries even Australia to > some extent or other, so ODBL is being presented as an option to close > loopholes that CC-BY-SA has. > If CC-BY-SA can enforce what? Attribution? If geodata isn't copyrightable, then it doesn't matter if the derivative works are released under CC-BY-SA.
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