2010/8/10 Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com>:
> Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes:
>
>>Any license that tries to use this patchy copyright protection of data
>>is bound to be unfair at the very least, and more likely a pain the
>>behind of anybody who wants to use it. The legality of OSM use cases
>>would depend on whether you execute a project from your Australian or
>>American office. We might be divided on some issues but *that* can
>>surely not be our aim.
>
> It is for each country to decide on its own copyright and other 'intellectual
> property' laws, and we should not try to export more-strict regulations from
> one country to another.  The CC licences are carefully written to avoid doing
> this.  The ODbL, sadly, seems to take the opposite approach.

I'd like this approach too: each country should be able to decide
license terms. Communities are different, population/contributor
densities are very different, laws are different. Would it be really
practical, and how it could be technically doable - no idea, perhaps
not. But still I'd like it.

-- 
Jaak Laineste

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