On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the main problems with sharealike/copyleft is the large number of > incompatible licenses. I suggest explicitly adding some important such > licenses to 4.4 iii, so we don't lock too many other free communities > out from using OSM data.
This is a problem but the licence authors are working on it. > At least the most common ones like GPLv2 or later, LGPL, GFDL and > CC-BY-SA should be added. This will make things worse rather than better as it will fork some OSM derivatives into four different incompatible streams. > Use case 1: > Creating a flyer about some topic where images from wikimedia commons > are combined with a map created from OSM data. According to > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GNU_licenses there are > 1319405 GFDLed, 6127 LGPLed, 13575 GPLed and over 400000 CC-BY-SA > (different versions) images on Wikimedia commons. CC and the FSF are discussing FDL/BY-SA compatibility and Wikipedia is committed to moving to BY-SA. BY-SA 1.0 is gone, we have to let it go. ;-) Versions after 2.0 are compatible with each other and with OSM. > Use case 2: > Using OSM in a documentary movie: Places relevant to the movie's topic > are shown on a map created from OSM data. Zoom in to a place, then > there's a movie sequence about that place, repeat for other places. For > the documentary footage placed under a CC license from archive.org's > moving image archive is used. This use case seems like it should be possible with the current licence unless I've missed something again? - Rob. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk