On 5 January 2011 02:26, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > And besides, there is another alternative to individual ownership and > collective ownership, and that is no ownership. If we don't want > individual ownership, that's fine with me, but that means the data > should be public domain.
Unfortunately that conflicts with other practical issues, such as most non-US government data that requires at least attribution of some sort, which then leads to duplication of efforts, rather than the ability to collaberate and everyone will be better off. Although it may be quite some time before most agencies that may have donated up until now will blindly accept changes back due to QA issues, but changes could fire off a "you need to check here" type notification. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
