On 24 June 2011 04:43, Robert Kaiser <ka...@kairo.at> wrote: > That said, I'm happy about FOSM, if I ever become a resident of the US and > that legal opinion on this matter still holds up, I might pull its data and > provide it under PD myself.
Unlikely, maps were the first thing to be protected under copyright, and copyright law doesn't stipulate what form the maps have to be stored under, and maps are deemed a creative enterprise. If anything ODBL offers the easiest path way to PD data. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk