[OSM-legal-talk] CC Attribution Share Alike License with OSMF exception

[Gervase Markham]

Brian Quinion wrote:
> So my questions is this:  would it be possible for the contributors to
> OSM (in addition to releasing the data as CC-By-SA) to also grant a
> license to the OSMF to use the data for ANY purpose? 

It would be possible for contributors to, certainly. Whether they would
all want to is another question entirely.

> Is this just stupid, or is this an easy way out of the bind the
> project now seems to find itself in?  I guess it really comes down to
> if people would be willing to trust OSMF...

It's definitely not a way which deserves the label "easy" :-)

Gerv