>> This seems rather apocalyptic. What do you mean by 'lose everything' and >> how would changing to a different licence avoid that? > > It is my opinion that CC-by-sa poses a high risk of not being enforceable to > databases. That would mean losing the share-alike rights to the data.
So you mean the data will become sort of "public domain"? Well, then there is question: what is worse? 1. Have all the data, but risk someone "abusing it"? 2. Or force the license change, therefore enforcing the share-alike rights correctly, but tossing some data away? Note that if cc-by-sa is somehow abusable, anybody that want to abuse the license using some loophole will simply grab last dump srill published under cc-by-sa instead of the new license - and then abuse the non-enforcability of cc-by-sa to databases. As for the possible data loss - since new license is basically still in spirit of cc-by-sa we can assume that most users will agree to license change, if we can contact them. So if we assume we will contact everybody who has logged/uploaded data at least once in last month and we will fail to contact the others - how many data will be removed? Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
