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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭

Another hot take re .

Back in 2012 when switched its license from Creative Commons to the then new ODbL 1.0, there was a fierce debate that OSM should have chosen a less restrictive MIT/BSD-style license and with some even advocating for plain public domain. (This resulted in a public domain dedication checkbox when you sign up for an OSM account.) 🧵 1/3

Simon Poole

@seav You knew I was going to respond with this.... :-)

To everybody else the public domain checkbox is not what you think it is, so don't jump to conclusions. See blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/10

The interesting thing to note is that at least some of the more prominent members of the community that were sympathetic to choosing a licence along CC0/PD lines, including yours truly, are now not.

blog.openstreetmap.orgThe “PD checkbox” | OpenStreetMap Blog
Dec 17, 2022, 09:17 AM·Public
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InsertUser

@simon @seav it would be interesting to see an extract for map data whose whole history had the public domain box ticked. I'm guessing the amount of usable data would be minimal and mostly buildings etc. that get added once and left as is.

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Simon Poole

@InsertUser @seav Well you would have to remove everything that was added/corrected via non-compatible (with PD) sources too, it would make the licence change look like a kids birthday party in comparison.

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