Dear all
It's incredibly cool that governments are thinking of using CC foe geodata.
Our legal-talk and other lists have found a whole ton of problems with
it though (we use a CC license in OSM).
I'd be super interested in seeing the results and if any lawyers think
that they're valid for
Do you have a link to the Database Directive stuff on osm-talk? I checked
out the list but there's a lot there and wasn't sure which posts to read.
I just got off the phone with the lead counsel of Science Commons, which
is the branch of CC made to deal with data. It was an interesting
Chris,
Thanks for the overview of your conversation. I appreciate your effort to
contact these folks. This is something I'm trying to get my head around but
without much success.
Do you (or anyone else out there) have a sense for the difference between
(scientific) data and maps? If I create a
