-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I've had some recent discussions with Joseph Gentle and Kari Pihkala > about the desire to maintain a "clean" repository of data collected > for OSM that would be released in the public domain before being > imported into OSM. This would allow anyone to use the data without > having to worry about the OSM license restrictions, especially the > viral portions.
I suggest that you be very careful when creating the agreement you will present to contributors that says they want their contributions in the public domain. In many countries, there are unwaivable moral rights that could make an agreement to the effect of "I release this work into the public domain" invalid. You may want to base your agreement on the PD agreement that Wikipedia uses: "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law." A statement like this is a much more likely to be valid in a variety of jurisdictions. Denver http://ossguy.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFI9O9rq02IUA/pi34RAuFeAKCKJhuO7xYakUsF1b+8eNDVDK1ZTwCbBuH2 4WUS67BF/KLPUg/nySiZva8= =aipb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
