Am 17.04.2011 10:17, schrieb Ed Avis: > andrzej zaborowski <balrogg <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> I know a relatively big project that's currently using OSM data under >> CC-By-SA and may be in a nasty surprise when they find OSM is no >> longer suitable. > > Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix this: keep CC-BY-SA available as an > option in addition to ODbL. > That's precisely what's going to happen, with or without license change. The only difference being that the CC-By-SA version not being updated by official OSM anymore.
No data will be lost to the world. Some data will be lost to the ODbL OSM should the change go through (and to me it looks like it will). But the ODbL will enable more users to use OSM data without so much legal hassle. The optimum in my opinion would be to go entirely PD/CC0 as it would enable maximum use of OSM data (as in our projects mission statement), and the protection would come from fast updates and large community workpower. So I accepted the new CT, and the new license by declaring my edits to be in the Public Domain, and I can only encourage you and everyone else to do the same, because that is the only sane way forward for the project, even if we have to remap parts of the world we can't take with us. I'm not taking that lightly, especially like it is in the case of Australia, but there are multiple ways for Australians out of this, including, but by no means limited to, a judicial process. (Have someone copy a small amount of user generated CC-By-SA-Map to PD Project and set a precedent in Court, I'm almost certain you'd get money from the OSMF legal fund to get that cleared.) -- Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie Bremen - 53.0901°N 8.7868°E
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