On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > SteveC schreef: >>>>>> You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? >>>>> Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't >>>>> protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? >>>> to do what, relicense? >>> Exactly; if your statement is sound. CC-BY-SA doesn't protect us, thus >>> doesn't protect us against ourselves, thus OSMF could declare the data >>> today as ODbL, and wait to get sued by the editors that doesn't like >>> this change, if the CC-BY-SA holds the relicense has just been made a >>> copyright infringement and therefore wasn't required in the first place. >> >> So you really are saying the LWG / OSMF should just ignore everyone and >> change the license? > > This is the /only/ way to prove that CC-BY-SA is enough to have your > original data protected. If the outcome of such case would be that it > was legally sound to do so, you can victoriously claim that what the > OSMF was in the best interest of the project.
Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ? Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
