Ulf Möller <osm <at> ulfm.de> writes: >>1. Current license does not cover the OSM data (I think that's the OSMF >>view). In this case, OSMF can just change to ODBL without asking anyone. > >The OSMF has a contractual relationship with its contributors. So if >there is no copyright protection on the CC-BY-SA licensed dataset that >does not mean the OSMF can do anything it wants with the data.
Sure, but anyone could set up a new legal entity and clone the data. That would certainly be less disruptive than asking everyone for permission and deleting those who refuse. (And morally, I don't think there is that much to choose between the two options either - deleting people's contributions which they made in good faith in the expectation of helping create a free, CC-licensed map seems pretty unpleasant too.) So again, either CC-BY-SA 'protects' the data or it does not. And if it does not, why the need for all the fuss? -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
