On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:01 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/11/3 Anthony <o...@inbox.org>: >> Why? According to the very organization distributing the data, the >> license doesn't apply. > > Well, isn't it more "it might not apply"? Maybe we won't win a case > but maybe we would actually.
I think "quite likely" doesn't apply is the official stance: "It is quite likely that OSM data is not protected by U.S. (and other jurisdictions') copyright laws. This means it is also quite likely that CC BY-SA, which relies on copyright in the data, not the data collection, does not protect OSM data." (http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Unsuitable) But unofficially, From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_Yes: "our current licence, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-By-SA), isn't legally applicable to OpenStreetMap" - Richard Fairhurst "I'm sick of telling people what the rules of the license are when, at the same time, I know that (a) we don't stick to them ourselves and (b) they're not even enforceable." - Frederick Ramm "CC-BY-SA (our current license) doesn't apply to data." - User:Matt Or OSM-talk: "There is no way in continuing with CC-BY-SA as CC-BY-SA can't be used for databases. It is just not possible, damn!" - Peter Körner _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
