[OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

[Nic Roets]

Has the ODbL been finalized yet ? If not it will either need to read
something like "ODbL version X or later".

I support you and I would like to go even further. Namely any license
that the OSMF chooses. But at least one of the OSMF members (Mikel?)
was opposed to it because it's so easy to get OSMF membership (and as
a consequence a controlling majority on the board).

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Russ Nelson <russ at cloudmade.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking that we should modify the agreement that people make when they
> sign up.  It should read something like this:
>
> 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 (non-exclusively) licensed under this Creative
> Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to give us
> your email address, or your email address stops working, you waive all right
> to ownership of your edits.
> Should we, God forbid, need to change the license ever again, or make any
> other kind of legal change, we have a defensible legal position for those
> people whose edits have, or become, anonymous.
> --
> Russ Nelson
> - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson
> russ at cloudmade.com - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson
>
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