[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License missing on many web pages
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Wed Oct 1 09:25:26 BST 2008
Hi,
(just to clarify: this is talking about the current CC-BY-SA license,
not the new proposed license.)
Joseph Gentle wrote:
> Ah yes; but the original authors are the contributors not the OSM
> foundation.
It is in fact much more complex than that. Note how the license speaks
of the original *author* (no plural here). This is because the license
only works between two parties at a time: You create a way - you are the
original author. I modify your way - I create and publish a work derived
from your work; the new work is "my work" which I have to attribute to
you. A third person modifies the way again; now I am the original author
in the sense of the license (not you!), and the license works only
between me and him. Of course any license I grant him is void unless I
adhere to the terms that you set in your license to me, but still, the
third person has no direct legal relationship with you.
So the original author is always only the last person to have edited an
object.
Strictly speaking it would be *his* responsibility to somehow credit
those upon whose work he has built his work; we assume this to be
automatically provided by the database mechanism (way refers to node,
node has username) but even this has not been tested in court ever.
Bye
Frederik
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