[OSM-legal-talk] Who owns OSM data?

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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A side debate of the licensing issue is the who owns the OSM data issue.
If it isn't the foundation, then it's much harder for us to change the
license (although not impossible).

I don't believe that the data I have contributed to the foundation was
contributed by me to them under the CC-BY-SA license. I believe I was
giving them a non-exclusive unlimited license to publish the data
however they pleased. The reasons I believe this are:

* I didn't explicitly agree to it in the signing on process.
* The foundation has not complied with the terms of CC-BY-SA on any
other contributed data before I joined.
* I didn't even agree when I signed up to allow OSM to attribute me as a
contributor - under the UK's data protection act, they probably aren't
allowed to do so without my permission.
* Most other web sites work this way.

Can we run this past the CC lawyers and see what they say?

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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