-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Schmidt wrote: | On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:35:19PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: |> PD - |> pros - easy to implement, legally trivial, does not require |> policing, compatible (on the usage side) with any other data | | Ignoring the fact that under US law, it's impossible for individuals to | place copyrighted material into the public domain? Ignoring the fact | that many countries have no concept of 'public domain'?
AFAIK, legally, the words "Public Domain" means the things that cannot be protected with copyright, and in most places you can't "make things public domain", they either are public domain or they are not. However, this doesn't mean you can't make things available for free with the condition that you disclaim all legal responsibility for further reuse. That would be stupid. I wouldn't be allowed to send you this e-mail unless you paid me money for it or something. I think it's well understood that when we talk about public domain on this list, this is what we mean. |> CC - |> pros - no loss of data, copyleft "spirit" remains intact, world |> becomes better place, legal requirement to give stuff back to |> OSM | | Er, CC? I didn't see Richard proposing the use of CC... Instead, there | was a proposal of using a different community-targeted open data | license... Both of you have said CC without mentioning which of the 13 CC licenses ~ you are referring to. This one is probably my favorite: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ :-) Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgqCQz+aYVHdncI0RAtkDAJ4hDJ8O91EWynIdenypJPqMd/Kk1gCfbjih wNwFw1EX6fqC+KGfrHUSwX4= =dX+i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
