[OSM-legal-talk] Simple question about CT

[David Groom]

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From: "Nakor" <nakor.osm at gmail.com>
To: <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Simple question about CT


>
>  On 8/16/2010 6:24 AM, David Groom wrote:
>>
>> Therefore surely if "I" agree to the CT terms then legally it covers all 
>> the edits I make.  If the intention is for it only to cover the edits "I" 
>> make when logged in o a "specific user account", then I would have 
>> thought the CT terms need rewriting something along the lines of
>>
>>
>
> So people that have "import" accounts for which the data cannot be 
> re-licensed will not be able to either re-license their other 
> contributions nor contribute at all to OSM after/if the license switch 
> happens?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   N.
>

On the basis of the current wording of the CT's what you have written above 
would be correct.

Since the wording of the CT's covers a person and not a user account, then 
anyone who has added any data in the past which is not compatible with the 
CTs  cant agree the CT and thus will be  prevented from adding anything to 
OSM, whether it is through the user account they have used in the past or 
any newly created user account.

So not only is it likely that large amounts of data will disappear from OSM, 
but the people that added that data will be prevented from trying to fix the 
black holes.

Plus of course, as they people are prevented from doing any editing, they 
will therefore cease to be "active contributors", and therefore won't be 
able to take part in any future licensing vote!

David