[OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

Brian Quinion openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk
Tue Aug 10 16:16:28 BST 2010


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
> If you support the share-alike concept, I urge you to accept the new Contributor Terms which provides for a coherent Attribution, Share-Alike license written especially for databases.  If you are a Public Domain license supporter, we are divided as a community on which is best and I do urge you to give this one a good try.  The Contributor Terms is expressly written to allow us to come back in future years and see what is best  without all this fuss about procedure.  And if you'd just really like all this hoo-haa to go away and get back to mapping, well, please say yes.

One question:

Given that you can't (legitimately) sign up to the CT if you have used
data which you are not the copyright owner how will we deal with the
situation where someone who HAS imported external data signs up to the
Contributor Terms?

In some ways it is their own problem, they have warranted that they
are the legal owner and accepted responsibility for any resulting
copyright infringement but this seems a trifle unfair since they may
not have understood the implications and it also still leaves OSMF to
resolve the future copyright disputes.

--
 Brian



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