Too many licences (was Have you ever edited OpenStreetMap ?)

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 12-02-05 16:57 , Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 
> ODbL? Yet another ffffine licence? Isn't it enough that we have GPL v2,
> GPL v3, BSD, MIT, multiple CC licences (to name some more common ones),
> and now ODbL?

In many countries, data - as in externally-verifiable facts - cannot be
copyrighted. Although CC claim that CC 3.0 and the planned 4.0 are
applicable, ODbL made more sense. It's not a decision taken lightly; it
involves data loss and other upheavals.

Richard's note was I think meant to advise any users from this list
that, if they took no action, their contributions might disappear.

 Stewart
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