Am 20.04.2011 06:20, schrieb Mike Dupont:
What I dont understand is this: if the license is not good enough for osm, why is it not good enough for wikipedia? If the license is broken, why dont the authors of the license fix it so all projects benefit.
The "value" of a single wikimedia article is enough to have it protected by CC.
The "value" of a single node is to small.
The "value" of osm comes from the combination of all nodes and way, from the database. CC does not protect databases in most countries.
More on the Wiki: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License#Why_ar...
on the Legal-ML ;)
and, if you cqan understand german, in this wonderful record from the FOSSGIS 2011: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSSGIS2011/FOSSGIS2011-323-de-os...
Peter