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

[Russ Nelson]

On Mar 1, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Simon Ward wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This needs a safeguard to allow for email addresses temporarily not
> working.  I’m not even sure this is the right thing to do anyway.   
> It’s
> far safer getting rid of a user’s data than it is assuming ownership  
> of
> it.

Why?  If the owner of the data ever shows up, they can 1) agree to any  
changes in the license, or 2) ask to have their data removed.  I don't  
see much value in removing the data now on the chance that we might  
have to remove it later.

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