Currently the checkbox has absolutely no bearing on the license that your data is distributed under. It really is just a "statement of purpose" which is noted in the account settings but doesn't actually DO anything.
Toby On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Niklas Cholmkvist <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Read it and I've come to ask if anyone has read > http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode too. (it is a > waiver of copyright so don't be afraid to read it. It is very short, for > a legal text, that is) > > After all.. if there is a checkbox called "public domain" in the OSM > registration page which is pretty 'abstract', it doesn't really mean > anything("public domain" is not a license, but a statement of purpose). > While the link I provide is a legal waiver = something practical and > useful. Do you have anything for or against this text, regarding using > it for Openstreetmap data? > > Regards, > Niklas > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
