OpenStreetMap's point of no return [LWN.net]

OpenStreetMap's point of no return

Posted Jan 18, 2011 11:36 UTC (Tue) by TomH (subscriber, #56149)
In reply to: OpenStreetMap's point of no return by mlinksva
Parent article: OpenStreetMap's point of no return

Well if the CC approach is not to mandate public domain for all data then it is news to most of the OSM people that have been following this debate because that is precisely what we have repeatedly been led to believe is the CC position.

Consider, for example, this message to our legal-talk list:

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2009-...

Which says:

"But, I would remind everyone that the current official CC policy on CC licenses and databases - indeed, on any legal tools other than PD for databases - is the science commons protocol on open access to data, which calls for the PD position only."

There have been many other messages along similar lines - that was simply the first one I came across.

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OpenStreetMap's point of no return

Posted Jan 18, 2011 18:05 UTC (Tue) by mlinksva (subscriber, #38268) [Link]

I think that email (and similar) overstated the scope (science) of CC PD-only policy even in 2008, but that's a CC communication error, as described in other comments. I apologize for this error and recognize that OSM has acted in good faith based on limited information coming from CC.