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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/05/2014 12:03, Martin
Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-16 11:42 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc
Liotier <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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As it stands now, there is nothing that prevents anyone
from contributing ODbL-licensed data into an ODbL-licensed
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I agree with Peter here, there is something that can make you
think twice about importing ODbL licensed data: the CTs. You
not only have to comply to ODbL, but also to the CTs. <a
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href="http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms/FR">http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms/FR</a><br>
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3. OSMF agrees that it may only use or sub-license Your
Contents as part of a database and only under the terms of one
or more of the following licences: ODbL 1.0 for the database
and DbCL 1.0 for the individual contents of the database;
CC-BY-SA 2.0; or such other free and open licence (for
example, <a moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow" class=""
href="http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/">http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/</a>)
as may from time to time be chosen by a vote of the OSMF
membership and approved by at least a 2/3 majority vote of
active contributors. <br>
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Section 3. of the contributor terms demand agreement to the
re-licensing process. The fact that one agrees about the
re-licensing process does not imply that the terms of the
hypothetical future license borne from that re-licensing process
currently apply.<br>
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If the OSMF triggers triggers the re-licensing process, then a whole
new can of worms will be opened and we shall have a fun discussion
about its contents and how to get it approved by a 2/3 majority of
active contributors. For now however, that container of
invertebrates is not in our inventory and we operate within the
scope of the ODbL.<br>
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While of course the contributor terms are governed by English law, I
would like to cite Article 2 of the French Code Civil: "Legislation
provides only for the future; it has no retrospective operation". It
was written since 1803 and still applies today. Maybe as a French
citizen I am suffering from cultural bias in seeing that principle
as important, but I suspect that something like that exists in
English law because even the English don't really wants to be ruled
by laws that don't exist yet.<br>
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Even if a future license puts the whole Openstreetmap world upside
down in a perfectly legal manner, it does not apply to us today. We
have no obligation to comply to rules that do not exist.<br>
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