[OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

[Frederik Ramm]

John,

John Smith wrote:
>> But in the grand scheme of things, not changing the license (I *knew* this
>> would become a license discussion ;) is, in my opinion, likely to alienate
> 
> Because you keep making it a license issue, but of course it's not and
> you know it.

In my eyes the ODbL and CT are part and parcel and I refer to both as 
"the license change". I don't think that you can separate them.

The reason is that ODbL is a license for databases, and what the 
individual contributor contributes is not (or at least: not usually!) a 
database.

This means that whereas we currently have a situation where each 
contributor simply agrees to license his data under license X, without 
any mention of OSMF, and OSMF then comes and aggregates that data using 
the rights granted by that license, we cannot in the future have 
individual contributors say "I license my data under ODbL" and OSMF then 
just makes a compilation (because the ODbL cannot apply to single edits).

So you *need* CT in which the contributor basically signs over his data 
to OSMF who then make a database from it.

Bye
Frederik