Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Bear in mind that Creative Commons, who actually > wrote our current licence, would have us dedicate all of OSM's data > to the public domain
Actually, their position was more or less that it is very likely to be public domain anyway, dedication or no dedication, and that it is better to embrace this and work with it instead of continuing a life in denial. The new proposed license partly accepts that our data is free but tries to add restrictions to the "whole", and it will probably take forever until we know wheteher these restrictions stand up in court - or are null and void, in which case those adhering to the restrictions will be the honest losers (and might well spent have a lot of time and money to construct a business model around a nonexistent concept). But I digress. At least the new license is better than what we have right now. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
