[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new

[Tom Hughes]

In message <47A7AD71.4050301 at arjam.net>
          "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:

> I'm still think that the foundation owns everyone's data already. When
> you sign up, it says:
> "By creating an account, you agree that all work uploaded to
> openstreetmap.org and all data created by use of any tools which connect
> to openstreetmap.org is to be licensed under this Creative Commons
> license (by-sa)."
> 
> I read that as anything I give to OSM, they will license back to me (and
> everyone else) under CC-by-sa. It can't possibly mean that I am
> licensing it to them under CC-by-sa, because they don't even remotely
> comply with the 'by' part of that license.

How on earth can you read that statement to suggest a transfer of
ownership? I'm not disagreeing that it's probably badly worded, but
equally I don't think either of your suggestions is what was intended
and it certainly can't possibly be a transfer without explicitly
saying so.

The intention I believe was to allow the "project" to store the
data on your behalf and make it available to people on a CC-BY-SA
basis. The fact that the project has itself been outside the terms
of that license is neither here nor there - that is after all one
of the things we are trying to fix!

I'm not quite sure why you think the project is violating BY though
as SA is the main problem area?

Tom

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