Thread closed: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote: > [Apologies for continuing cross-post, please follow-up to OSM legal-talk.] > > Sam Vekemans wrote: > >> So my question is weather or not, at a later date, I >> can change my choice (based on new information which would want me to >> change my mind).? > > As a general point, if you declare that something is "public domain" (say, > by a CC0 declaration), you can't reverse it _for_that_particular_work_. You > have already granted rights for people to distribute it without infringing. > > You can, of course, declare that your future works will be licensed > differently. > > In the specific case of the OSM database, if you wanted to start doing this, > you would probably need to establish a per-object licensing flag. This would > require significant code changes and I assume you're not volunteering to do > that. > > I would suggest therefore that the best way to do that is for you to > maintain two accounts, one PD and one not. Certainly this is what I intend > to do, so that I can use the latter for any future substantial mapping from > attribution-required sources (e.g. OS OpenData). That said, substantial > mapping if you haven't been there is bad anyway. ;) > > cheers > Richard (official OSM PITAFL) > >
Thanks, I have 2 accounts and can easily make the preference clear in my user profile description. So this solves the issue, Thanks, Sam _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk