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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Of course the OSM community does not depend on the OSMF to clearly
communicate to Facebook that their insulting behaviour is not
acceptable and that it will cost them a lot more economically in the
long term to continue acting this way than anything they might hope to
gain from it.</pre>
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<p><font face="Arial">We are not talking about a simple company, we
are actually talking about a company that is a Gold Corporate
Member of OSMF and have sponsored a few events [1]. So if they
are not aware of the license something is clearly wrong in "</font><font
face="Arial">showing their long term support to our
organisation" and "</font><font face="Arial">In doing so they
are helping to keep OpenStreetMap's servers running, supporting
the work of our volunteer working groups, and above all showing
their support for OpenStreetMap" [2].
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<p><font face="Arial">source:</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Facebook_(company)">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Facebook_(company)</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">[2]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members</a><br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">And with at the moment at least four out of seven OSMF board members
having ties to big organizational OSM data users/contributors ... well,
as we say in German: Eine Krähe hackt der anderen kein Auge aus.</pre>
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<p><font face="Arial">Are those ties public? Are they connected to
any of the corporate members of OSMF?<br>
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<p><font face="Arial">And quoting
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Historic/We_Are_Changing_The_License">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Historic/We_Are_Changing_The_License</a></font></p>
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<p>But what happens if the Foundation is taken over by people
with commercial interests?
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<ul>
<li>You still own the rights to any data you contribute, not
the Foundation. In the new Contributor Terms, you license
the Foundation to publish the data for others to use and
ONLY under a free and open license.</li>
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<li>The Foundation is not allowed to take your contribution
and release it under a commercial license.</li>
</ul>
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<li>If the Foundation fails to publish under only a free and
open license, it has broken its contract with you. A copy of
the existing data can be made and released by a different
body.</li>
</ul>
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<li>If a change is made to another free and open license, it
is active contributors who decide yes or no, not the
Foundation.</li>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Às 19:00 de 09/06/2019, Christoph
Hormann escreveu:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Sunday 09 June 2019, Nuno Caldeira wrote:
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I hereby request OSMF board, responsabile for the OSMF, as the
Licensor under ODbL 9.4 c) to notify Facebook and remove their rights
under ODbL, if the violation is not fixed after 30 days of notice. as
written on ODbL.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/index.html">https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/index.html</a>
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I applaud you placing the ball in the OSMF board's court on this matter
but i would not expect substantial actions from there.
Although Facebook is an extreme example it is by far not the only case
of big organizational OSM data users and contributors looking down on
the OSM community and its values and doing as they please disregarding
objections to what they do if they consider them unworthy or
insignificant.
And with at the moment at least four out of seven OSMF board members
having ties to big organizational OSM data users/contributors ... well,
as we say in German: Eine Krähe hackt der anderen kein Auge aus.
Of course the OSM community does not depend on the OSMF to clearly
communicate to Facebook that their insulting behaviour is not
acceptable and that it will cost them a lot more economically in the
long term to continue acting this way than anything they might hope to
gain from it.
But the question is of course if the OSM community as a whole is willing
to stand up to Facebook and others to defend our values. If you
imagine what percentage of OSM community members are Facebook customers
you might already have your answer. Or to put it slightly differently:
Why should Facebook even assume that OSM community members are in
anyway displeased with Facebook if they (to a large part) continue
using Facebook?
I mean using Facebook as a communication platform for the OSM community
is even advertised on osm.org (via iD editor and osm-community-index):
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/search?q=facebook&unscoped_q=facebook">https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/search?q=facebook&unscoped_q=facebook</a>
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