Legal issues aside, map data (and ongoing versions of map data edited by
different individuals) is intertwined. Which is to say that people build on
the contributions of others both in elements that co-exist and elements that
are direct descendants of each other.
In the end, it's like a book written and edited by a community of authors, each
building on, and deriving from, each others work.
My suspicion is that a system where each user can choose a different licence
(or set of licences) for their contribution would either fall apart (as some
entities would need to be rolled back to the last version compatible with the
current use case and other items would co-exist under different licences as
different entities in the db).
I am supposing that both editors and extractors would specify a license and the
content (shown for editing or extracted to a file) would be dynamically
filtered from all the data and versions available. In the case of editors, if
an earlier/compatible version is edited it would imply a fork of the item under
edit at the prior version.
I may not actually understand what you intend as a result of this (from a
practical, data management stand point) so my concern may be misplaced.
Jim Brown -CTO CloudMade
On 26 Jun 2011, at 16:39, "TimSC" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to create a way for individual users to relicense their data
> under difference licenses. Since OSM and derivatives are OAuth capable,
> it is possible to authenticate a user and get them to agree to a
> license. This can be stored in a machine readable format. I hope this
> will be useful in transferring data between forks, particularly if a
> significant number of people chose permissive licenses. From what I can
> tell, most mappers pretty much agree to any license they are presented
> with. :)
>
> http://timsc.dev.openstreetmap.org/extralicenses/
>
> At this stage, I was hoping for ideas for improvements of the legal
> issues. Any thoughts?
>
> TimSC
>
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