Hi, Simon Ward wrote: > They fail to note that if there are no rights in some jurisdiction, then > the database is free anyway, and so are derivatives.
As you know I'm pro-PD anyway but one thing that specifically strikes a chord for me in the CC reasoning is the idea of having the maximum possible certainty regarding rights and obligations for everyone involved. It is obvious that we don't have a lot of such certainty right now with CC-BY-SA. I had initially (and naively) hoped that whatever the new license, it would at least bring such certainty but no - again we have the questions about what exactly constitutes a derivative vs. a collected database, what is substantial, and what is a database anyway and so on. And the answers to these questions are very likely to be different depending on where you are - whereas I, again naively, had hoped that we would reach a certain "fairness" where someone's handling of OSM would no different whether he was in the US or in Europe or on an island in the South China sea. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
