Hi, The licensing working group has been discussing about a thing called PD aspirations https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_113gtw62wdf
Excerpt from the minutes ================================================ 5. "OpenStreetMap PD-Contributor Terms" Freimut Kahrs wrote to us concerning "an issue that has recently emerged on German and international blogs and mailing lists", suggesting that mappers should be able to choose between two different Contributor Terms offered by OSMF: 1. CT-ODbL (the current 1.2.4 Contributor Terms) 2. "CT-PD" , which releases personal contributions into public domain and allows direct use as such by end users of the OSM geodata set. A discussion concluded that there are disadvantages. It was also felt that, while attractive to a segment of the community, it goes against the 2007 consensus of choosing the latter of going PD or go something like CC-BY-SA but written for data. We noted that we are already giving an opportunity to folks to indicate their PD aspirations. It would need work on whether it is legally feasible and would also require changes to OSM's end user licensing, i.e. not just ODbL. ================================================ Are there plans to publish some day the statistics about how many users have been willing to indicate their PD aspirations and how wide a segment we are talking about? Without statistics the bare opportunity to indicate PD aspirations is not very much to be happy about. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
