<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM, SteveC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> Remember: Steve is the head of the OSMF, so this is the OSMF Chairman's<br>
> position about other peoples opinions when they don't share his own opinion.<br>
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</div>I'm not allowed to have opinions?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Is this the organization you want to hand over the license of your OSM data?<br>
<br>
</div>The OSMF wont own the data and you know it.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>The Contributor Terms contains the following clause: "You hereby grant to OSMF and any party that receives Your Contents a
worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable license
to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything within the
Contents, whether in the original medium or any other."<br><br>That's pretty much as close as you can get to owning a piece of data.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yours &c.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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