[OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Francis Davey wrote:
> I can't really say much constructively about the terms of use without
> understanding what their goal is and what tolerance of risk the thing
> is being engineered to. For example, OSM data is going to be imperfect
> in places

In fact, this whole discussion is largely about Ts&Cs for our *web site* 
and not for our data. The data thing is regulated somewhere else 
entirely (in the ODbL license text and accompanying docs). What this 
lawyer actually suggested is that we should have Ts&Cs governing the use 
of our web site, which is of small importance compared to our data.

I am not even clear if the lawyer who suggested we need Ts&Cs for the 
web site was only talking about the human facing side of it ("Web sites 
are what you see in a browser, aren't they?") or about the whole HTTP 
based API we offer. Probably the former, because it is difficult to make 
a computer accessing the API understand and agree some Ts&Cs.

Bye
Frederik