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OpenStreetMap licence?

OpenStreetMap licence?

Posted Nov 26, 2010 16:07 UTC (Fri) by zotz (guest, #26117)
In reply to: OpenStreetMap licence? by epa
Parent article: Microsoft helping OpenStreetMap

"You are right that a CC licence is quite restrictive in some cases, preventing a map from being included as part of a larger work unless that work is also CC-licensed."

If a map printed in a book would be treated like a photograph printed in a book then I don't think this worry is true. See the discussion in the cc-community archives. Same for a newspaper article and what have you.

I don't like that this is true and keep trying to get BY-SA changed to close what I consider to be a loophole, but that hasn't happened yet.

drew


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