That's not how the ODBL works. When the switch is made to the ODBL, every individual changeset/node/way/etc will be effectively in the PD (everyone in the world will have a non-revocable license to do anything restricted by copyright law). Only the database as a whole will be under ODBL.
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:36 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > Currently there is a lot of debate over licenses, some people want to > change from cc-by-sa to odbl and yet others keep pushing for things to > go to public domain. > > I was chatting with one such person in favour of PD on the phone > yesterday about this, one thought that occurred to me was to have data > tagged with license information, editors could potentially go about > this in a number of ways, explicitly tagging nodes, ways and relations > with the license chosen by the user, eg data:license=public_domain, > and warning PD advocates if they edit CC-BY-SA/ODBL information and > that the changes won't be public domain. When a person explicitly > wants ODBL/CC-BY-SA the license could be updated or stripped if it > matches the OSM default. > > Alternatively the changeset could be tagged, but this would be a lot > more difficult for editors to "know" what is PD and what isn't if the > changeset contains a mix of both. > > While I personally favour a share alike type license, some don't and > this might be a way to make the majority of people happier. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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