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On IRC this morning, jongleur points out that OpenStreetMap no
longer uses CC-by-SA; their data is now licensed under
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ODbL. There's a lengthy explanation of the rationale for the change
here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License">http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License</a><br>
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Currently the labs Terms of Use says "
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all content must be freely licensable under an applicable creative
commons license." That seems to exclude OSM data, which surely is
not our intent. I note that the item just before that (about
software licenses) uses a more expansive term, "
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OSI-approved open source licenses." Is there a similar umbrella
term that we can use for content that would include CC-like licenses
without restricting users to actual, literal CC licensing?<br>
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-Andrew<br>
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