[Imports] Microsoft Buildings Import Inquiry

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 14. Feb 2019, at 17:57, Angela Morley via Imports <imports at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> In my personal opinion, I would assume items being imported in an individual fashion with human input are subject to the data license policies of OSM, but are not subject to the community imports approval process, as there's no risk mitigation to be concerned with.


data from third parties which isn’t in the public domain is always a liability for OSM, because it might be incompatible with a future license as codified in the contributor terms (if anybody still believes in a possible license change in the future), and it may taint other contributions that build upon it. Even cc0 is such a liability because the data publisher does not guarantee that it is free of rights.

Therefore the community should retain the right to refuse it.

Cheers, Martin