Mike Dupont writes: > how can you take a cc-by-sa document edit it and publish it under pd? > can I just make derived works in any license i want?
Well, that's part of the problem here. How do we determine what is someone's work, and what is a derived work? If I take a way that someone has entered (poorly), and I move each and every node, and fix the speling on the name of the way, whose creative work is it? (one could easily argue that the other person was the one being "creative" whereas my work is merely a fact about the world, but I'm not going to make that argument here). We don't really know the answer to that, which makes this whole "license changing screw the community, we know better" exercize a piss in a pot. Seriously, if I was Google (and I'm thinking of a specific person -- no, not Ed), I would look at the licensing confusion and disarray in the Open Street Map community, and say "God damn, what a bunch of idiots. They have some good ideas, like VGI, Mapping Parties(tm), JOSM (nice to have a dedicated OSM editor, but what an unusable piece of crap it is) and a GeoBus(tm). Let's use those ideas, make our own map, and put the goddamn thing out in the public domain once it's good enough to kill off Navteq and TeleAtlas rather than have them just steal it. Oh, and we'll kill OSM too, which is too bad, but they had their chance." -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
