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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk