[Apologies for continuing cross-post, please follow-up to OSM legal-talk.]
Sam Vekemans wrote:
So my question is weather or not, at a later date, I can change my choice (based on new information which would want me to change my mind).?
As a general point, if you declare that something is "public domain" (say, by a CC0 declaration), you can't reverse it _for_that_particular_work_. You have already granted rights for people to distribute it without infringing.
You can, of course, declare that your future works will be licensed differently.
In the specific case of the OSM database, if you wanted to start doing this, you would probably need to establish a per-object licensing flag. This would require significant code changes and I assume you're not volunteering to do that.
I would suggest therefore that the best way to do that is for you to maintain two accounts, one PD and one not. Certainly this is what I intend to do, so that I can use the latter for any future substantial mapping from attribution-required sources (e.g. OS OpenData). That said, substantial mapping if you haven't been there is bad anyway. ;)
cheers Richard (official OSM PITAFL) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
