On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 15:42, DavidD <thewi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/1/17 John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/1/18 Anthony <o...@inbox.org>: >>> I didn't say it's invalid so much as it's redundant. >>> >>> All contributions are effectively PD anyway. >> >> That still isn't the point, people want to produce PD data that is >> readily accessible to all, not PD data shrink wraped with another >> license. > > OSM has masses of CC-BY-SA data and contributors. How will the PD > people deal with that? Start replacing the existing CC-BY-SA data and > reverting any edits to PD data by CC-BY-SA contributors? > > It doesn't look like this idea has had very much though behind it. > It's pretty easy to see that two groups of people trying to reach the > same goal with different licenses within the same database is going to > cause friction.
The theory is that the data isn't copyrightable and therefore the CC-BY-SA didn't apply in the first place since it is a copyright license. Although oddly the same people who make this claim aren't coming up with non-free copyrighted map data for us to import, but why would that be a problem since geodata isn't copyrightable? Beats me. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk