> 1. Let us - the "powers that be" in the project - accept that there are > people who want (some of) OSM in the public domain, and let us accept > that, where contributors are ok with this, this is a valid concern. Let > us not stigmatize this concern and tell them to find their own place to > run their own project; let us create an OSM mailing list where, in the > future, we investigate the possibility to give OSM contributors the > option to dual-license their data, so that - to the extent permissible > by licensing - there might be a subset of OSM that is actually PD > because the contributors wanted it. Whether or not this turns out to > work is a completely different question - I am not saying we should > allocate any resources or make any promises, just set up the mailing > list and accept that OSM/PD is a topic worth discussing INSIDE our > project. >
Yes please, but not on the same list as the details of the SA licence are being discussed which was my point. > 2. In return for this "inclusive" act, let us - those that would rather > like to see OSM go PD as a whole - hold back this discussion for at > least as long as the re-licensing process is finished and OSM is under > ODbl/FIL. Let us accept that the ODbL/FIL is a workable compromise and, > at any rate, something better than the CC-BY-SA we have now. Let us > concentrate forces on how we can make OSM an inclusive platform that, > while generally being share-alike licensed, also opens avenues for > contributors to dedicate things to be PD and users to extract such data > if they want, even if that means that the PD stock will always just be a > lesser-quality subset of the whole of OSM. > Yes. > To end this with a Peter Miller-esque phrase: Does that make sense? > Yup ;) Peter > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk