[Labs-l] Licensing: CC vs. ODbL vs. ???

[Andrew Bogott]

     On IRC this morning, jongleur points out that OpenStreetMap no 
longer uses CC-by-SA; their data is now licensed under ODbL.  There's a 
lengthy explanation of the rationale for the change here: 
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License

     Currently the labs Terms of Use says " 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, " 
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?

-Andrew
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