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Ask HN: RFC Would you share photos under public domain (CC0) license?

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TLDR: Would you upload photos of a rock wall and let others freely use said photos in anyway they wish (including commercial purposes)?

Hi everyone,

I'm Viet at the OpenBeta project. We've just launched a photo upload feature that allows rock climbers to upload and share climbing photos. Ultimately, we hope climbers find the Wiki site useful, and stick around to help us improve the climbing route database, which, by the way, is freely available under the public domain license.

Would you upload photos of a rock wall and let others freely use your photos in anyway they wish (including commercial purposes)?

If you're active on GitHub, please share your feedback on RFC 307: https://github.com/OpenBeta/open-tacos/issues/307

thank you!

4 comments

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gus_massa
Public domain is a problem because many countries don't recognize it. The recommendation is to use the CC0: Creative Commons "No Right Reserved" license that is equivalent but is written in a way that is recognized everywhere. Read the details in https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

They have a bunch of licenses. Do you want to allow other people to make money with your work? Should modified versiona also be in "public domain"? Ensure that the license you pick allows people to do only what you want https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/

rockingclimber
Yes, CC0 is what we're aiming for. I'll update the title. Thanks for the comment.
mikewarot
Personally, CC:BY (attribution) is a really rewarding way to go. You get to learn where your photos end up used, having explicitly granted the permission in the first place.
rockingclimber
One of the project goals is to reduce data friction and maximize adoption. User-generated content about rock climbing routes is available under CC0. We also want to release photos of rock walls as a supplemental dataset. These photos can be very useful for making "climbing topos" [1].

Requiring attribution (BY) will make it an administrative nightmare for us to manage and for downstream users to comply. Should users attribute us or the original authors? I believe for the same reason OpenStreetMap replaced CC BY-SA 2.0 with ODBL [2].

[1] https://www.cartowall.com/en/crag/el-capitan/topos

[2] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ/Wh...