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

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Tue Feb 5 19:26:41 GMT 2008


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Rob Myers wrote:
| 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.

My point was that we may be able to exploit the ambiguity, otherwise we
might have to throw away half the data when we change license.

Long term, we can avoid the ambiguity by making it clear that all data
belongs to OSM, whoever that is (probably the foundation), then we can
let the foundation change the license whenever they need to.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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