On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Richard, > > Richard Weait wrote: >> Imagine a data provider using perhaps cc-by, or a BSD style permissive >> license contributes their data to OSM. >> Imagine then that they would like to monitor changes in OSM to data >> that originated from their source. >> Imagine then that they would like to incorporate those changes, with >> or without further vetting, back into their dataset under their >> license. > > I agree that this would be very desirable; however it would allow our > sacred data to leave the protecting cage of ODbL and live on under a > CC-BY-SA or, God forbid, a BSD license which would be unpalatable to > many contributors.
if they've got balls of steel, they could just claim that CC BY-SA doesn't apply to factual data and just take the current OSM data ;-) on a more serious note, this is very much like the Biba model. if we order licenses by property: BY-SA, BY, 0, then it follows a write-down, read-up model. in other words, even if we had a BSD type license, our data could be incorporated into BY-SA projects, but not into PD projects. the only way to become a universal donor also means rejecting non-PD imports. personally, i think that imports are bad, m'kay? so i'm not that bothered ;-) cheers, matt _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
