Pieren schrieb: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:25 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I missed an option saying I'm in favour of ODbL but may not be in >> position to agree to relicense all data I uploaded (because part of it >> is CC-BY-SA owned by other authors). >> >> Cheers >> > > As far as I understood (but some experts might rectify if I'm wrong), > only the last contributor of an element will have to accept the new > licence. So if your uploads are based on other authors who will reject > the new licence, the data will remain anyway if "you, the last > contributor in the history of this element" accepts the new licence.
Ouch! So I can write a small script that touches every element in the OSM database to own the copyright of the whole database?!? Well, that's certainly not my understanding of copyright! Regards, ULFL BTW: There's a german "user" (spammer?) that exactly does that already on a smaller scale (unknown if he's doing it manually or by a script). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
