On 15 December 2011 16:42, Ed Avis <[email protected]> wrote: > Henk Hoff <toffehoff <at> gmail.com> writes: > >>Looking at the current situation, the ODbL is a step forward from the current >>CC-BY-SA 2.0. When (in due time) CC4 proofs to be a better license then ODbL, >>we could change to this license. > > If the new CC licence will be ready next year, why not keep the existing CC > licence available as an option until then, in parallel with the ODbL? Then > when > CC4 is finalized the OSMF can make the decision whether to drop CC altogether. > But people can still take advantage of the extra permissions given by ODbL, > too.
There exist cases where people are *now* using OSM under CC-By-SA, with full respect of all of our community guidelines, where they will have to stop using it if OSM becomes ODbL-only. This is because share alike licenses are incompatible with each other, even though as some human-readable summary says the two licenses are similar in spirit. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
