On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:22:59AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please do not encourage new data releasers to release geodata under > > creative commons licenses. It has ben a source of major disagreements > > with regard to openstreetmap, and I don't think it's any better for > > anyone else. > > > Geodata is not creative. Creative Commons licenses are written for > > creative works. Even the Creative Commons people I've talked to don't > > think geodata should be covered under anything other than 'CC Zero'. > > > http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=262 sums this up quite well: if you > > haven't read it, *Please do* before advising anyone who has not already > > released data on license issues. > > Creative commons licences rest upon copyright law. > If a legal juridstiction determines that copyright is not applicable > to geodata, then both copyright and the creative commons license > go away.
But contract law doesn't. The Open Database License rests in part on Contract Law, Database Protections, etc. Copyright law isn't all there is. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss