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

[Rob Myers]

Robert (Jamie) Munro 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.

It is marginally possible to read the terms to mean that, but it is a 
less likely reading than the expected one, that you are licencing the 
data to OSM under BY-SA.

It might be worth modifying the Ts&Cs to avoid any potential ambiguity.

- Rob.