2012/10/24 andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com>: > As has been noted in the Public Domain subset thread, the contributors > can make license statement that they like, but the OSMF can still > enforce the database rights. So a statement by the contributors (e.g. > on OSM wiki) that is not confirmed by the OSMF is not very helpful to > the end user.
what the end user could do: approach the contributor that made the PD declaration and ask them to give them the data they contributed under PD conditions ;-). Not sure but I guess this might be only possible if the user had stored a local copy of the data. If the original contributor got his ("own") data from the OSMF-servers it would probably be under ODbL even if he himself had contributed it and given only a non-exclusive license to OSMF. From a practical point of view I think it would be difficult to determine whether the data was copied from the OSMF servers of from a local copy though. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk