[OSM-legal-talk] reciprocal data agreements

[Frederik Ramm]

Richard,

Richard Weait wrote:
> Imagine a data provider using perhaps cc-by, or a BSD style permissive
> license contributes their data to OSM.
> Imagine then that they would like to monitor changes in OSM to data
> that originated from their source.
> Imagine then that they would like to incorporate those changes, with
> or without further vetting, back into their dataset under their
> license.

I agree that this would be very desirable; however it would allow our 
sacred data to leave the protecting cage of ODbL and live on under a 
CC-BY-SA or, God forbid, a BSD license which would be unpalatable to 
many contributors.

Bye
Frederik