On 17/07/10 20:40, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Michael Barabanov wrote:
A poll could be something like: "Would you find a it acceptable if
OSMF relicensed the whole dataset to ODBL without any data loss".
It should really be "Would you find it acceptable if OSMF relicensed
the whole dataset to ODbL without asking for consent from individual
contributors, thereby making sure that there is no data loss, but
disregarding individuals who might be against the change?"
If OSMF were to do that, they would likely be sued by a number of
principled objectors; we'd have to factor in a legal budget to deal
with that. It should not be too much because those legal advisers that
have told us that the CC-BY-SA would likely not hold in court would
simply have to tell the judge the same ;)
Problem is, the principled objectors could also decline to sue OSMF
and instead threaten to sue users of OSM data that contains their
contributions. *We* believe such threats to be empty, but consider our
users - one of the reasons for ODbL is to achieve a legal certainty
about using our data. Would all this not lead to people *again* shying
away from OSM for fear of some poisoned bits of data?
I don't think that Michael was actually proposing that we actually do
this, more just use it to get an idea of if people agree to the
principle of moving to ODbL if the "data loss" issue wasn't an issue.
I think that the majority would, there will be a few exceptions but IMHO
ODbL is a much better license. From what I can tell most of the current
descent is around what to do about CC-BY-SA data imports where the
provider can't or won't relicense, or contributers that we can't contact.
Cheers
Chris
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