[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime
Axel Marquette
axelmarquette at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 18:46:58 GMT 2008
Le 4 févr. 08 à 19:22, Tom Chance a écrit :
>
>>>
>>> This sounds like a nightmare: I could lose weeks of work because
>>> someone who fails to reply played with Potlatch once for a few
>>> minutes and then vanished.
>>
>> You have a better idea? :-)
>
> No, but it's a bit scary without having any good idea of the number of
> people who won't respond. Here are two possibly rubbish ideas:
I'm just a french law student, not an accomplished jurist yet, but
could'nt you use the concept of "silence equals consent". When
publishing the next license, just include a clause saying that as
long as users do not explicitly refuse to comply, their silence is
being considered as acceptance of the new terms and their data is
distributed under these terms. Adding a deadline of one year would
allow OSM to definitively "lock" the data under the new license to
prevent a zombi coming back ten years from now to claim a refusal.
The question this poses though, is wether or not the current legal
terms allow OSM to undergo such a procedure on behalf of users and
their accounts.
Regards, Axel.
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