On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 22:31, Roy Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:46 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/1/18 DavidD <[email protected]>: >>> OSM has masses of CC-BY-SA data and contributors. How will the PD >>> people deal with that? Start replacing the existing CC-BY-SA data and >>> reverting any edits to PD data by CC-BY-SA contributors? >> >> The point more is for new data, than existing > > If this is only applicable to "new data", why not upload that to a > separate server, and later import it into OSM as necessary? > > I'm not even sure that any contribution to OSM can really be called > "new data", as most "new" data will be "created with reference to a > point Y that was share-alike licensed and thus becomes a derived work" > - as Frederik pointed out.
For what it's worth the OSMF legal counsel does not agree that data is viral in this way: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Closed_Issues#Features_touched_by_multiple_contributors.2C_not_all_of_whom_sign_up_to_new_terms _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
